About Us
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+ - Hi, I'm Radek – a software engineer, a West Coast Swing dancer and the person behind spotlight.cam. -
+About Us
-- Spotlight.cam is a project built by someone who actually stands in the same registration lines, dances in the same heats and scrolls through the same event pages as you :P -
++ Hi, I'm Radek – a software engineer, a West Coast Swing dancer and the person behind spotlight.cam. +
-- If we ever meet at an event, I'll probably be somewhere near the dance floor, probably pressing "record" on someone's spotlight. -
++ Despite the very official "About Us" in the menu, at the moment "us" is just... me 😅 One-person team, many hats. +
-- To be fair, the original idea for this service was actually dropped on me by a friend who was tired of hunting for someone to film her dances – I just did what any backend developer / DevOps / Linux admin would do: said "okay, that shouldn't be that hard… right?", opened my editor, set up a few servers and scripts… and suddenly we had a new project on our hands 😅 I also had a not-so-secret teammate: AI. Without it, this would probably still be stuck in my "one day" folder for about a year 😄 -
++ Spotlight.cam is a project built by someone who actually stands in the same registration lines, dances in the same heats and scrolls through the same event pages as you :P +
-The Vision
++ If we ever meet at an event, I'll probably be somewhere near the dance floor, probably pressing "record" on someone's spotlight. +
-- Our goal is to make it easier for dancers to capture and share their competition moments. No more running around looking for someone with a free hand to record your heat. No more missing your own spotlight because you were recording someone else's. -
++ To be fair, the original idea for this service was actually dropped on me by a friend who was tired of hunting for someone to film her dances – I just did what any backend developer / DevOps / Linux admin would do: said "okay, that shouldn't be that hard... right?", opened my editor, set up a few servers and scripts... and suddenly we had a new project on our hands 😅 I also had a not-so-secret teammate: AI. Without it, this would probably still be stuck in my "one day" folder for about a year 😄 +
-- We're building a platform that connects dancers who want to help each other out, making the whole process smoother, fairer, and more organized. -
++ If you’re into WCS nerdy stuff, you might also like my open-source WSDC Event Results Analyzer – a tool for exploring and visualizing competition placements – or gdzienawesta.com, a calendar that collects upcoming West Coast Swing events in Warsaw (and, who knows, maybe one day across all of Poland). +
-Technology
++ More about me: socials, contact options, and CV are at + radoslaw.gierwialo.com +
-- Under the hood, spotlight.cam uses modern web technologies to deliver a fast, secure, and reliable experience: -
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- WebRTC peer-to-peer transfers - your videos are sent directly between devices, never stored on our servers -
- Real-time chat - coordinate with your recording partners instantly -
- Smart auto-matching - fairness algorithms ensure everyone gets help -
- End-to-end encryption - your data is protected at every step -