Overview

ThewiForge is an AI creation studio built around an extensible product architecture. Its first implemented creation product focuses on professional profile-picture and portrait generation, with a design intended to support additional creative studios over time.

Problem & design goal AI image generation can be difficult for nontechnical users because it requires prompt engineering, managing uploads, waiting for asynchronous jobs, and understanding generation costs. The project makes that process more approachable through guided inputs, predefined options, clear credit consumption, and a private output gallery.

Key capabilities

- Guided professional image generation using source photos and selectable appearance, framing, outfit, pose, and background options.

- Standard/premium generation paths, configurable AI provider routing, asynchronous job handling, and status tracking.

- Credit-based usage, top-up/payment workflows, and administrative controls.

- Private uploads and galleries, watermarked previews, protected downloads, and ownership-aware media access.

- Web application and Flutter mobile integration through a dedicated API bridge.

- Modular product registry for future creative products; future studios are not presented as completed features.

My contribution : I worked on the product concept, Node.js/Express backend, PostgreSQL data model, AI integration, generation lifecycle, credit and billing rules, access controls, Flutter API connectivity, and deployment/testing workflows. The design addresses both technical concerns - background jobs, protected media, and idempotent requests -and commercial concerns such as per-generation costs and entitlements.

Technology: Node.js, Express, EJS, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Flutter/Dart, OpenAI Image API, Midtrans (sandbox integration).