Stride Football
A platform for amateur footballers in Cluj-Napoca who want properly organized matches — rosters, payments, referees and stats instead of a WhatsApp group that falls apart.
Overview
Full-stack amateur football platform: Stripe credit payments, community referees who run live matches and get paid, field-owner bookings, teams and gamified stats. Built solo — ~99k lines of PHP, zero dependencies.
- Role
- Sole developer — architecture, database, backend, frontend, payments, security and server ops
- Year
- 2026
- Status
- Live
Highlights
- 01
Zero dependencies
No Composer, no vendor folder — the Stripe client, SMTP client, TOTP 2FA and encrypted Web Push are all written against the raw specs.
- 02
Payment correctness
Signed, idempotent webhooks with replay tolerance, plus a reconciliation job that recovers any payment whose benefits failed to apply, on a full audit ledger.
- 03
Referee economy
Community referees pass a timed test, run matches live from their phone with GPS-verified attendance, and withdraw real earnings to an encrypted IBAN.
Stack
- PHP 8.2 (no framework)
- MariaDB 10.6
- nginx + PHP-FPM
- Tailwind CSS
- Vanilla JavaScript
- PWA + Web Push (VAPID)
- Stripe API
- Google OAuth 2.0
- SMTP
- Hetzner VPS
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