@SelinaZ

I’m planning to ship a prototype version of Kindling to get some feedback before I fully develops it. Everything on the front end is working fine, I just haven’t developed a database and all the login credentials stuff. I am planning to store all the data in Supabase database and implement user login (like email, google login etc)
So in this devlog, I pushed all the changes and current version of the code to my Github repo and wrote the README. I also deployed the current Version on Vercel.

To give yall a better demo experience, I decided to implement the backend storage along with the front-end with my first ship.
So now users will be able to:

1. Edit their profile
2. Add their own creations/projects
3. Add new ideas to the inspirations page

However, for now the storage is only to the local browser (just for demo purposes). I will be creating a formal backend via supabase later, but that will be included in the second ship. So this is pretty much what I’ve been working on for this devlog.

Will be cleaning up the code a bit and the first ship be ready!

I enabled some more features to my websites, mostly just finishing up some small parts and making some UI actually work properly.

1. I added a save button to the inspiration posts and whenever the user click on the save button it will save to the “collections” tab on the Profile page.
2. I also made the search bar finally working, so it is now properly filtering inspo posts based on the title and details.
3. I also made the filtering by category work. Currently I only have the 5 categories shown in the photo, but feel free to give me more recommendations.

I added some more features and enables some buttons. I added pop up modals for the “add project” and “edit profile” button on the profile page. And I also changed the layout of the content of the inspirations popup modal (because it was previously just randomly generated content by AI).
Still have a few things to finalize and update, but once that is done, the front-end should be somewhat presentable.

I added a featured projects section to the home page, and built out the basic structure of the profile page. Still have to enable some buttons and add some popup pages (like the settings, edit profile etc) to the profile page.
The current placeholder contents for all the inspirations/ideas are all AI generated. I’m planning to leave the for the product demo. Once users start using this website, they will be removed.
Once all the front-end is finalized, I’m planning to ship the first version as a brief product demo to get some feedback before I start building and connecting to the backend.

I added the About page and filled it in with my own content (instead of making AI to give me some temporary filler content). I also enabled some more functionalities in the Inspirations page, like the “add” button. I also replaced some of the previously AI generated filler content with actual contents.
There’s still a lot of functionalities I need to add. Once all frontend is done, I will start working on the backend.

This is my new project! I am always struggling to come up with fun and creative things to code, either just for fun or for hackathons. However, I have ,any friends and younger siblings who always like to give me ideas of what to build. So this inspired me to create this coding projects idea hub.

The goal is: users can upload cool hackathon project ideas that come to their mind, or issues they have in their life that they want to get a software application to solve, or ideas of software applications that can solve real world issues.

This not only helps hackers build meaningful projects, but also allows people who don’t know how to code to express their needs or wishes.

I do plan to continue running this website once it is finished, and potentially scale it up. Of course, I still need to think more about the details like crediting, privacy, and business potential if I do push this out to the public.
For this first ship, I’m just working on building the major framework and structure. Currently have the inspirations page basic layout finished, still working on the other to pages. I used AI to populate the content for now, as I can’t come up with so many project ideas so quickly lol.

Updated the new README, everything is good to go, I think I’m ready to ship. If you have any suggestions about what I should add to my website, let me know!

I wrote the readme with executables and doubled checked everything is working. Then I pushed the changes to Github, and it should be good to go! However, since this is a Java project, I can’t deploy it to a web browser. So it can only be run on a local PC.

I added a start and a replay button so the user can keep playing the game. The game is working perfectly and now just have to clean up the code and add in some more comments! Also need to work on deployment as well.

I have successfully implemented the game logic and added a score display. Now the game will end whenever the bird falls out of the frame or hit one of the poles.

I started coding my first ever game in Java. I’ve never code anything in Java before, but I’m about to take a course in Java, so I wanna start getting my hands on it early. This will be a very basic platformer game, since I’m just getting started on it, I don’t want to make things very complicated.

I finished adding all the parts I want to add. I’m going to add in more designs and animations. After that’s done, I think this version of update is done. Let me know if there’s anything else I should add!

I recently started revanping my personal website by making it looks prettier, update the information and add more sections. I just started adding 3 more sections to my website: my story, certificates I’ve earned, and a social media list page. Let me know what else I should add!

I found some mistakes in my README file primarily because I change my db storage from SQLite to Supabase after I wrote it, and I also forgot to add the deployment link. So everything should be all lined up and good to go now. First ship of this project!

After two days of debugging and trying to deploy the project. The project is finally live on Vercel! I deployed the backend on Render and the front end on Vercel. I also changed my database storage from SQLite to Supabase database as Supabase is a cloud storage site that allow dynamic storage and I also don’t need to worry about uploading a ton of my personal clothing images to Github.