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I recently dove into Tailwind CSS, TypeScript, and Class Variance Authority—tools that expanded my development toolkit significantly. Using them, I successfully implemented a hover-triggered video playback on thumbnails and designed a sleek scrollbar effect for category navigation, enhancing both function and visual appeal.
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Amazing design
New case study: Stoopid's store, built headless.
Stoopid sells flavoured birchwood toothpicks (Atomic Apple, Mad Mint, Classic Cinnamon), and the brand is loud, playful and a little unhinged. A Shopify theme was never going to do it justice.
So I built a custom Next.js + Tailwind frontend on top of Shopify, with GoKwik handling checkout for Indian shoppers.
A few of my favourite bits:
→ Switch flavours in the hero and the whole page changes colour to match the pack
→ A pack-size picker (1, 2, 3 or 5 packs) with the saving shown upfront
→ Stoopid Sounds: a vinyl-style player for the brand's playlist
→ A draggable 3D photo dome of the Stoopid community
→ A "Don't Click" link in the nav. Obviously.
The best part for the team: products, inventory and orders all still live in Shopify admin, so nobody has to touch code to run the store.
Branding, packaging and design by Dhruvrajsinh Vala and Dhaivat Makadiya.
Live: stoopidco.in
If you're a D2C brand that's outgrown its Shopify theme, let's talk.
This is great work, the colour-shift on flavour switch is a nice touch. How are you handling product/variant syncing between Shopify admin and the Next.js frontend, webhooks plus ISR, or are you polling the Storefront API on each request?
