Talent Hunt Music Competition Website

I need a full-featured website built to run recurring music competitions online. The site should feel like a modern “talent hunt” platform rather than a simple e-commerce or blog, with every element centred on Organizing competitions for singers, bands, DJs and other music creatives.

Core experience
Visitors land on a vibrant, media-rich home page, learn about the current contest, and register either as contestants or voters. Contestants must be able to create a profile, upload audio or video performances, and pay an entry fee if required. Once a competition goes live, the audience should be able to listen, rate, and comment, while an admin console lets me approve entries, schedule rounds, and publish results.

Key features I expect
• Mobile-first responsive design (React, Vue or vanilla HTML/CSS is fine as long as performance is crisp).
• Account system for contestants, judges and general voters. Social log-in is a plus.
• Competition engine: create events, set deadlines, auto-progress top scorers to the next round.
• Media handling: upload, transcode and stream audio/video without lag.
• Real-time or scheduled voting with anti-cheat protections (CAPTCHA, IP throttling, etc.).
• Dashboard where I can see statistics, export contestant data and send bulk emails.
• Clean, upbeat visual theme that resonates with a music-loving crowd.
• SEO-friendly structure and basic on-page optimisation.

Acceptance criteria
1. A working site deployed on my hosting with SSL configured.
2. Demo data showing a full competition cycle from registration to final results.
3. Admin credentials plus concise setup / maintenance guide.

If you have previously built competition, event-management or music community sites, please share links; otherwise outline how you’ll tackle the media handling and voting logic so I can be confident it will scale smoothly.