Timeframe: 2025 – 2026
Context: Classly started as the internal classroom for the Bracken community and grew into a standalone learning platform for anyone studying IT, from first-year students to working professionals.
Problem / Goal: Learners juggle roadmaps, timers, to-do lists and calendars across many separate tools. Classly puts the whole study routine in one place and makes progress visible.
My Contribution
- Designed and built the platform end to end, from data model to UI
- Roadmaps with per-step progress states and attached resources, plus a roadmap builder
- Focus tools: Pomodoro timer, study sessions, tasks, goals and a calendar with Google Calendar sync
- Streaks and a leaderboard to keep people coming back
- Maven, an AI study assistant that turns plans into tasks
- Duet sessions for studying together, plus messaging with peer-to-peer file transfer
- Teams with shared leaderboards, Polar subscriptions, and team onboarding flows
- Web push notifications and a service worker for an app-like experience
- A security pass that enabled Row Level Security with owner-scoped policies on sensitive tables
Approach & Tech: Next.js with React and TypeScript, Prisma on PostgreSQL, NextAuth credentials auth, Supabase, the Google Calendar API, Polar for billing, Web Push, and GSAP / Framer Motion for motion.
Inside the app (demo data)
The timer you study with. On the right you can see who else is studying right now and where you stand this week.
Tasks sit under goals, with due dates and priorities. The calendar on the side syncs with Google Calendar.
Roadmaps you can follow. Some are picked by us, the rest are made by the community.
Each step has its own resources. You mark it as started or done, and the progress bar moves with you.
Every study session is saved, so you can see how much you studied today, this week or this month.
Study with a friend on one shared timer. Past duets are kept with the subject and how long it lasted.
Ask Maven for a study plan and it can add the steps to your tasks for you.
Notes grouped by notebook and subject, written in Markdown.
Ranked by study time this week. You can switch between your team, friends and everyone.
A feed of what people studied, with reactions.
Your team in one place: members, total hours and current streaks.
Your stats, your streak and the roadmaps you are working through.
What changed in each release, right inside the app.
Pick a color theme and a background style.
Outcome / Impact: Classly is live at classly.pro as a single home for structured self-study.
What I Learned:
- Database security has to be built in from the start: RLS policies belong in the first migration, not a later audit
- Small rituals like streaks and study partners keep people coming back more than extra features do