# Panousos Boats

> A sea guide for a licence-free boat rental business on Salamina: an interactive chart with points of interest and coastal safety zones, installable on a phone and gated behind an owner-issued code.

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- Project year: 2026
- Live project: https://panousos-boats.com/

## Overview

A guide that has to work on a phone, in sunlight, on the water — where the nearest support is back at the dock.

## The problem

The business rents small boats that need no licence, on Salamina. The customers are day trippers, often first-timers, and once they are out at sea nobody is there to answer questions about where they can go or which waters to stay out of.

## Goal

Give paying customers a guide they can trust on the water, and give the owner full control of what it shows without needing a developer.

## Role

Freelance engagement: designed and built the application and its admin panel.

## The challenges

- The guide is used at sea on a phone, where connectivity is unreliable and nobody is going to load a web page mid-trip.
- Safety information cannot depend on the customer switching a layer on — it has to be visible whether or not anyone looks for it.
- The owner runs the business alone, so changing a point of interest or the access code cannot require a developer.
- Everything competes for a small screen in bright light, which turned out to mean removing features rather than adding them.

## The solution

- An interactive chart of the island with points of interest and marked starting points, all managed by the owner from an admin panel.
- A permanent coastal safety band drawn 200 metres out from the shoreline, always on rather than a layer someone has to remember to enable.
- Customer access through an entry code the owner can change at any time, without a developer in the loop.
- Installable as a progressive web app, so the guide is on the phone before the boat leaves the dock.
- Map styles trimmed to the ones customers actually use, after the extra options proved to be noise on a small screen.

## Facts

- **team:** Solo
- **status:** Live

## Technology

- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Mapbox GL
- Postgres
- Drizzle ORM
- Tailwind CSS
- PWA

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