Problem
Pizza Monday started as a way to fight the Seattle freeze coming out of COVID. Every Monday from May through September, we fire up an 850-degree outdoor pizza oven, make slow-fermented dough, and serve eight pies. After three years of managing RSVPs through Acuity Scheduling, I hit its limits. No +1 management, no waitlists, no dietary tracking, and a lot of texting on my end to keep things running.
Approach
I designed and built a custom RSVP platform from scratch, with Sanity as the content backbone. Guests can book a single Monday or the whole season, add +1s with names and dietary needs, and join a waitlist. When a spot opens, it's first come, first served.
On my side, I built an event manager inside Sanity: headcount, remaining capacity, dietary breakdowns, and full guest lists. Using Sanity's App SDK, I also built a Mailchimp-like email composer with a block builder, test sends, and a 56-person subscriber list. Confirmations, cancellations, reminders, and host notifications all send automatically via Resend.
RSVP page
Automated email template viewer
Marketing email builder
Impact
What started as a side project to replace a $25/mo scheduling tool became a real product. The platform launches this summer for its first season. Four years of hosting pizza nights and managing ~1,280 guests through Acuity shaped every design decision.
~1,280
Guests hosted since 2021
$0/mo
Replaces $25/mo Acuity
