Planzia
A planning and task app for managing projects, tasks, budgets, and teams, with subscriptions, file uploads, and transactional email, on serverless Postgres.
Fullstack Development
2 Months
Introduction
A planning and task app for managing projects, tasks, budgets, and teams, with subscriptions, file uploads, and transactional email, on serverless Postgres.
Work Done
Core Product Launch
Challenges
Creating a secure, complex platform that could handle user authentication, multiple workspaces, and a live payment flow with real-time billing updates (like plan upgrades and cancellations).
Solutions
I used Next.js for performance and integrated Paystack for reliable national payment processing. I developed a complete system for project, task, and team management, ensuring all data was organized by unique user workspaces.
Results
I successfully built and launched a scalable SaaS product complete with a payment gateway, subscription logic, detailed analytics, and a multi-user, multi-workspace structure.
Details
A web app that feels like a desktop one
Planzia is a planning and task-management app for organising workflows. The goal was something that feels as snappy as a desktop tool but lives in the browser.
Serverless database
I used Neon (serverless Postgres) instead of traditional hosting, so the app scales up and down with traffic on its own, with no server to manage. Prisma sits on top for type-safe queries, which means a schema change shows up as an error in my editor instead of a crash in production.
Handling files
File uploads are usually a pain, so rather than wiring up S3 from scratch I integrated UploadThing. Users drag and drop avatars and attachments, which get processed and stored off the main server to keep the app light.
Email that looks right
To make it feel professional, I used React Email to build the transactional messages (welcome emails, task updates) as responsive HTML from React components, so they render correctly in Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail.
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Tope Akintola
November 28, 2025
Fullstack Development
