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Mern Shop — Full-Stack E-Commerce Platform
A complete online shopping experience, built from the ground up.
Mern Shop covers the full customer journey — product browsing, reviews, wishlists, cart, and real-time order tracking — backed by a powerful admin dashboard for inventory and order management. Secure JWT authentication keeps every user and transaction protected.
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In software, cheap work often becomes expensive work. A reliable build is not about writing more code - it is about making the right decisions before the problems become expensive.
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For the Contra × Config Makeathon, I finally built something I’d been thinking about for months...
Every time I cycled through our city and spotted a corner that could be so much better.
FixIt Club is a community app where anyone can reimagine tired public spaces.
Think Tinder for hobbyist urbanists—except you're swiping right on ideas, not people.
Watch the demo video and give it a try today!
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CAST:
Set Design: FIGMA
Prototype Director: FIGMA MAKE
Brand Guardian: FIGMA MAKE KIT
Coordinator: FIGMA MCP
Visual Effects: FIGMA WEAVE
Editor: CURSOR
Researcher: PERPLEXITY
SPECIAL THANKS:
CONTRA
FABLE 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYt0_1mMJOk
The "Tinder for hobbyist urbanists" framing instantly makes the concept land. Civic tech tools usually feel dry and bureaucratic so leaning into the swipe mechanic for ideas is smart. The toolchain (Figma MCP, Cursor, Figma Weave, Perplexity) is doing real work here too.
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