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Drivesome is built for car people only, not a general social network with a car section bolted on. Every photo you post can be tagged to an actual car in a structured database of thousands of makes, models, generations and badges, so a post about a 1994 Supra lives on that car's own page alongside every other Supra post in the world. Our Car Vision AI identifies the car from your photo automatically, so tagging takes one tap instead of five menus.

On top of that sits a full car culture stack that nothing else combines in one place: a personal garage with named pages for each of your cars, car clubs that can run their own members-only timeline, meetings, documents and permits, an events system with RSVPs, ticketing and QR check-in, and an in-app editing suite for cropping, trimming and scoring your clips with licensed music. Engagement earns DCred, which drives your rank from Rookie up to D King, and DTix, which enter you into giveaways.

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The alternatives are all compromises. General social platforms show your build to an audience that does not care, and their algorithms bury it. Forums have the knowledge but look and feel like 2006. Marketplace apps only care about you while you are selling.

Drivesome keeps the whole car life in one app. Your garage, your build history, the clubs you belong to, the events you are attending, the tickets you sold, the people you met at the last meet. Because posts attach to real car records, your content stays discoverable long after it drops off a timeline, and someone searching that exact model finds it years later. Clubs and event organisers get genuine tooling rather than a group chat: RSVP lists, attendee check-in, press passes, ticketing and donations through Stripe, member documents and permits. And there are no ads competing with your feed. The platform is funded by memberships, so the incentive is to keep the timeline good, not to sell your attention.

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Car enthusiasts worldwide, from daily drivers to serious builders. Three overlapping groups use it most:

Owners and builders documenting a project car, tracking modifications and showing progress to people who actually understand it. Car clubs and communities, who use Drivesome to run membership, meetings, documents, permits and a private club timeline. Event organisers and attendees, covering car shows, cruises, track days and meets, with listings, RSVPs, ticketing and on-the-day check-in. Around those sit the wider enthusiast audience: spotters, photographers, motorsport followers and anyone who just likes looking at good cars. Automotive businesses such as workshops, detailers, parts suppliers and venues run business pages to reach that audience directly.

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Drivesome started in Adelaide, Australia, out of a simple frustration. Car culture was spread thin across platforms that were never built for it. Photos of a build went to one app, the club ran on a group chat, the meet was announced somewhere else, and the knowledge sat in a forum thread nobody could find again. Nothing connected the car to the content, the owner to the club, or the event to the people who showed up.

So we built the platform we wanted to use. It began with the thing everyone else skipped: a proper structured car database covering makes, models, generations and badges, so a post could belong to a real car rather than a hashtag. Everything else grew from there, including the garage, AI car recognition from a single photo, clubs, events, ticketing and the editing suite. It is a global platform from day one, because a Skyline owner in Adelaide and one in Manchester are looking at the same car.

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Next.js 14 (App Router) with TypeScript and React Tailwind CSS PostgreSQL with Prisma ORM NextAuth for authentication, including Google sign in Node.js on Ubuntu, running under PM2 behind Nginx DigitalOcean (App infrastructure and Spaces object storage with CDN) Stripe for memberships, event ticketing and Stripe Connect payouts Claude (Anthropic) for Car Vision AI image recognition FFmpeg for video and audio processing Capacitor for the native iOS and Android apps, plus PWA support Firebase Cloud Messaging for push notifications Leaflet for maps, Resend and Nodemailer for transactional email

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Car clubs and enthusiast communities managing membership, meetings and events on the platform Independent event organisers running car shows, cruises and track days with ticketing and check in Automotive businesses including workshops, detailers, parts suppliers and venues running business pages Drivesome is a consumer platform, so our user base is individual car enthusiasts rather than corporate accounts. We do not publish named partners without their consent.