Dev.to
6/29/2026

The original title is "Building Quudos: a casting platform on Amazon Aurora + Vercel"
Original: Building Quudos: a casting platform on Amazon Aurora + Vercel
Short summary
Developer builds Quudos, an all-in-one casting platform for talent agencies, motivated by his daughter's acting career and fragmented spreadsheet-driven processes. Stack: Angular on Vercel, NestJS API, Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless v2 with strict relational schema (enums, transactions, advisory locks for consistency). Two NY/LA agencies committed; roadmap includes actor marketplace, integrated payments, and AI-powered brief generation.
- •Problem: talent agencies manage casting via disconnected spreadsheets, email, and folders with no visibility
- •Solution: relational database (Aurora PostgreSQL) with strict schema + Vercel front-end unifying submissions, callbacks, bookings
- •Traction: two NY/LA agencies already committed; roadmap includes actor marketplace, payments integration, and AI scoring
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