Empowering online magazines to run crowd research and campaigns, data-focused and interactively displayed for evaluation.
Since 2019, Bajour — a newly founded online magazine in Basel — needed a technical partner to take over and develop their early proof-of-concept platform. Over several years, I managed their Kubernetes-based GCP infrastructure, built and maintained frontends, micro services and delivered countless side projects. Below are two key crowd research investigations.
"Wem gehört Basel?" – Crowd Research Tool
A large-scale community-driven investigation to collect ownership data for every building in Basel within a few weeks. The tool integrated seamlessly with existing editorial workflows and included data evaluation and an interactive map. This project was shortlisted for a Swiss Journalist:innenpreis.
Technologies: Google APIs, NuxtJS, ExpressJS, AWS Lambda Functions, Python
Year: 2021
Links: reflekt.ch | bajour.ch | Interactive Map
"Ist hier noch frei?" – Collaboration with CORRECTIV
This project started after multiple agencies failed to deliver or became unreachable. So, akoda took over the technical lead and full technical rescue and guidance — frontend, backend, video upload extensions, and map integration — and together delivered the project under extremely tight deadlines.
Technologies: MinIO S3 Storage, NuxtJS, Directus, Google APIs, Python
Year: 2023
Links: correctiv.org | bajour.ch | Interactive Map | isthiernochfrei.bajour.ch