Memphis Nightmare

Overview

Memphis Nightmare, LLC is a volunteer-run group in Memphis, Michigan with a mission to 'Make Memphis Fun Again.' Their flagship event is Terror at the Timberline — a one-weekend outdoor haunted maze each October at the Memphis Lions Club pavilion, with 100% of net proceeds funding the fireworks at Memphis Days. They needed a site that could sell tickets, recruit volunteers, and take donations for an event that lives or dies in a six-week promotional window.

The Challenge

A seasonal attraction needs two things that rarely come together: real atmosphere and real commerce. The site had to feel like a haunted attraction — not a generic events page — while handling $5 ticket sales with limited nightly capacity, one-off donations, sponsor outreach, and signups for the all-neighbor volunteer crew that builds and runs the maze. And because the whole operation is charitable, every dollar spent on the platform is a dollar not going to the fireworks.

Our Solution

We built a Turborepo monorepo: an Astro static front-end drenched in the event's horror branding — blood-drip display type, a fog-and-timberline hero, and a live countdown to opening night — paired with a Fastify + Neon Postgres API. Stripe Checkout powers tickets and donations with webhook-driven fulfillment, and volunteer signups flow through the API into the database. Static-first delivery keeps the site fast under the October traffic spike.

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