Everlasting Echoes

I developed Everlasting Echoes, a guided digital memorial platform that helps grieving families turn scattered memories into a structured life story. Gentle, guided questions become a published memorial page — chapters, a photo gallery, and a tribute wall visitors reach by scanning a QR code at the funeral. It serves four user types across three portals: families and their invited contributors, funeral director partners, and internal admins, each with its own dashboard and permissions.

Front-end

Next.js 15 (App Router), React 19 and Tailwind CSS deliver a calm, mobile-first Creator Studio, with role-aware edge middleware routing each user to the right portal, inline per-chapter photo uploads, and voice dictation so families can speak their memories rather than type them.

Back-end

FastAPI and Strawberry GraphQL with async SQLAlchemy, handling Stripe checkout and webhooks, presigned S3 uploads, transactional email, QR generation, and Claude-driven narrative generation with admin-managed prompts.

Database

PostgreSQL with Alembic migrations models memorials, chapters, contributors, tributes, and a partner commission ledger whose pending/cleared/paid status is derived on read, so every figure reconciles.

State management

Apollo Client v4 keeps the multi-step creation flow, collaboration state and searchable admin tables consistent throughout.

• Built the guided-question flow in which the Claude API turns families' answers into warm life-story narratives.
• Integrated Stripe with webhook-driven refunds and a funeral-director commission ledger (pending, cleared, paid, voided).
• Built a FastAPI GraphQL API with 44 mutations serving 3 role-based portals.