One app for a whole innovation hub.
A private social network for Pilsen's tech community: news, events, bookings and membership, from phones to the tablets on the wall. Built for SIT Port by a startup working a few floors up.
Built a few floors up.
TechTower is one of the most modern technology parks in the Czech Republic: ten thousand square metres in a converted Pilsen brewery, housing startups, student innovators and established tech companies. It is run by the city of Pilsen's IT organisation through its SIT Port programme.
SIT Port's philosophy is to back young local talent and use their solutions instead of buying off the shelf. So rather than licensing a generic community platform, they commissioned Guava, a startup working from inside TechTower itself. The app for Pilsen's young tech community was built by members of that community, a few floors up.
“Give young talent trust, a chance and an opportunity. And use what they build.”
One building, no shared space.
Hundreds of students, freelancers and companies shared one roof, but no digital one. SIT Port needed a single platform covering the whole member experience, and its administration, across mobile, web and on-site hardware.
A platform with four faces.
Mobile app
A private social network for the community: message board, events with registration, a document library, job postings, member profiles and push notifications so nothing gets missed.
Call box booking
Booths booked from the app, or on wall-mounted tablets running in locked-down kiosk mode. Walk-up bookings need no account: tap the tablet, take the booth for 15, 30 or 60 minutes.
Membership automation
Admins upload the city-issued invoice PDF; the system reads the due date and QR payment code from the document, emails the member, tracks who has paid and sends the reminders itself.
Admin interface
One Filament dashboard where the SIT Port team manages content, events, members and bookings in a single place.
Numbers from the building.
And membership billing runs without the spreadsheet: payment tracking, invoice emails and reminders handle themselves. The only manual step left is the one that can't be automated: the city issuing the invoice.
“…the new SIT Port mobile app, which we use to strengthen communication across our community.”
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