IdeaMarket

Made the front-end for it. its usable I guess
its not much, but its honest work at least

almost shipping it, just need to improve the UI a bit and ensure everything works (some front-end components are vibe coded and I dont trust AI that much lol)

Added the API route for ADs.
TODO: add the frontend for it

Added the credits feature, that uses the upvotes and downvotes to determine the amount of credits the user has.
TODO: make it useful a.k.a. implement the user-made ads

Added support for user profile pictures (and some small features)

By default, it fetches your profile picture from gravatar (but accepts custom uploaded images). The images are currently stored as base64 directly onto the mongoDB users collection (should I use smth like cloudflare R2? yes. will I? no)

Implemented comments feature, and idea-specific pages (based on ID).
TODO: add reddit-style identation to comment threads

Added settings page

Many improvements on API + responsivity
TODO: implement profile settings page + profile pictures

Connected the back and front ends, so now it’s functional. Btw, small tip: NEVER trust AI on front-end animations, you’ll end up having to rewrite 95% of the code because of how poorly optimized it is lol

TODO: implement ADs

First devlog
So far I’ve been researching, planning how the ADS system will work and prototyping some pages with AI so I can see how they look, and will refactor them later. I also implemented the authentication (this was by hand tho lol)