This project is archived and no longer actively maintained.
This was a React/TypeScript web application built as a directory of custom camper van conversion builders across all 50 US states. It featured Google Maps integration, photo galleries, filtering by state/amenities/services, and a data pipeline that used Puppeteer/Playwright to scrape builder contact info and photos from their websites.
The project was developed at a time when finding a comprehensive, searchable directory of van conversion builders was genuinely difficult. By the time it was revisited in 2026, several functioning directories already existed in this space, making another generic listing site low-value without a clear differentiating angle.
The data collection pipeline — scraping contact info from footers, verifying builder locations, and pulling gallery photos — was also technically challenging with the tools available at the time. Modern approaches (Firecrawl, LLM-based extraction, Google Places API) would make this significantly more reliable today, but the market case for continuing wasn't strong enough to justify the rebuild.
- React 19 + TypeScript
- Material-UI (MUI)
- Google Maps API with marker clustering
- Node.js / Express backend (optional)
- SQLite database
- Playwright / Puppeteer for data scraping
- Google Sheets API for data storage
- Netlify deployment
Archived. Kept as a portfolio reference.