FWMFL - Football Was My First Love

Contributed (via piparo.tech) to FWMFL — Football Was My First Love — a podcast and audiobook streaming platform for football fans, published by Olympia-Verlag (Kicker).

Areas of contribution

• Mobile app: React Native + Expo app for audio streaming with background playback, offline downloads, subscriptions and push.
• Audio player: Queue management, playback progress and seamless transitions; offline mode with local storage.
• Subscriptions & monetisation: In-app purchase flows, paywall UI, supporter recognition and premium-content gating.
• Backend services: Services in Go and Rust for API endpoints, content management and RSS ingestion.
• Marketing website: Statically generated site with SEO, podcast/audiobook pages and FAQ.
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes platform with Helm and Terraform; deployment and local-dev tooling.
• Quality: Accessibility improvements across key flows and comprehensive error monitoring.
• Modernisation: Migration of a legacy stack to a consolidated, container-orchestrated platform and a port of the mobile app from a hybrid framework to React Native.

Internal implementation details and vendor choices of the client remain confidential. The list below covers general technologies I worked with on this engagement.