I wanted to build something useful for the grappling community while also getting hands-on experience with GitHub Copilot as a coding assistant and with deploying a real app to GCP. The result is a BJJ Event Tracker: a live web app that aggregates upcoming Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and grappling events from multiple sources, deduplicates them, and shows them in a filterable UI with direct watch links.

Here is the story of how it came together.

I wanted to build some things to learn more about GCP, so I decided to create a pipeline that will automatically take files from a Cloud Storage bucket (on upload) and end up in a BigQuery table. Since I enjoy Jiu-Jitsu, I am uploading BJJ match clips in order to eventually do some AI analysis.

Here are the steps I took.

Step 1: Create a Cloud Storage Bucket

First, I created a bucket to hold my raw match clips.

I decided to set up a static blog from scratch using Hugo and GitHub Pages. The goal is to use this blog as a place to take notes about things that I’m doing so later I can reproduce things if I need to.

Here are the steps I took

Step 1: Install Hugo (Extended)

I’m on Windows, so I installed the extended version of Hugo using Chocolatey:

choco install hugo-extended -y

Then verified: