Hi, I'm Radek – a software engineer, a West Coast Swing dancer and the person behind spotlight.cam.
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
If we ever meet at an event, I'll probably be somewhere near the dance floor, probably pressing "record" on someone's spotlight.
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 😄
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.
We're building a platform that connects dancers who want to help each other out, making the whole process smoother, fairer, and more organized.
Under the hood, spotlight.cam uses modern web technologies to deliver a fast, secure, and reliable experience: