Xala Studio SAN DIEGO · TIJUANA / EST. 2026
Selected work · 2025 · Event ops · SoCal

POPLAB.

A photobooth platform for SoCal: booking, inventory, and the on-site event-night flow that actually matters. Built around the person running the booth at the wedding, not the marketer in the office.

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POP.

The brief.

Photobooth operators have a deceptively complex workflow: a public-facing booking site, a private inventory of cameras and props, and, most critically, the live event-night run where the operator on-site needs to set up fast, troubleshoot mid-event, and tear down clean. Most "photobooth software" handles the first thing and barely touches the other two.

What we built.

Quick facts.

VerticalEvent ops · SoCal
Year2025
StackNext.js · Postgres · Stripe
RegionSouthern California
StatusLive

Now.

POPLAB is live and booking events. The platform's design constraint ("the operator at the booth is the customer") is the same one driving every other thing the studio builds, just in a different vertical.

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