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AI E-Commerce Personalization Engine
A multi-brand online retail store wanted to replace generic homepage banners and static "related items" grids with an intelligent, real-time AI recommendation engine to boost cart value, conversions, and customer retention.
Key Challenges:
Cold-start problem for newly launched products with zero sales history.
Generating sub-50ms dynamic product feeds during peak flash-sale traffic spikes.
Tracking complex visitor browse events without slowing down frontend page loads.
Technical Implementation & Solution:
• Real-time Tracking: Built an asynchronous event-streaming pipeline using Kafka and FastAPI to record clickstreams, cart additions, and dwell time.
• Hybrid Recommendation Logic: Combined collaborative filtering with multi-modal vector embeddings (CLIP) to analyze both user purchase patterns and product visual styles.
• Dynamic Visual Search: Implemented image-similarity search via Qdrant, allowing shoppers to upload photos and immediately discover matching catalog apparel.
• Headless API & Shopify Integration: Exposed lightweight REST & GraphQL endpoints that integrate seamlessly with Shopify Liquid and Next.js frontends.
Results & Impact:
• Increased average order value (AOV) by 22% within 45 days.
• Lifted product click-through rates (CTR) on personalized widgets by 34%.
• Handled 10,000+ concurrent requests with sub-40ms response latency.
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Kyiv, Ukraine · One-woman pet grooming studio
The problem: Marta handles every booking, message and schedule change herself, so even a simple customer enquiry can turn into hours of manual work.
The build: KUDLA is an AI-assisted booking and studio management system designed around how a solo groomer actually works.
Instead of a traditional booking form, clients simply chat with Pip. They can send a photo, describe what they need, get an estimated duration and price, see only the available slots that fit, and confirm the appointment — with no extra work for the owner.
On Marta's side, Pip handles the follow-through: rescheduling, client communication, filling cancelled slots and keeping a record of every message. Marta stays in control and approves changes before anything is sent.
❗ The system also reflects a reality specific to running a business in Kyiv. When an air-raid alert interrupts the day, Marta can pause the schedule, prepare the right messages for affected clients, and rebuild the remaining appointments around the time left — including prioritising an animal whose groom was interrupted.
KUDLA isn't another calendar. It's an AI layer that helps a one-person studio keep running when the owner is busy — or when the day doesn't go to plan.
Try the build
Customer experience:
https://kudla-grooming.lovable.app/
Owner system:
https://kudla-grooming.lovable.app/signin
Click “Sign in as owner” — no credentials required.
You did so great! Very inspiring example :)
As a freelancer, keeping everything that runs your business organized gets harder as the business grows. Money coming in and going out, client details, project files, new leads, job applications. It adds up fast, and it gets overwhelming.
So I built Rendr, a personal AI-powered macOS app that keeps my whole business in one place, so I spend less time managing and more time designing.
What it does:
• Command Center: a daily briefing of what needs my attention, and why
• Pipeline: tracks leads from first contact to signed work, with AI-drafted proposals and follow-ups
• Clients: every client's history, files and notes in one hub
• Money: payments, open invoices and payouts, synced from Contra
• Job search: Contra jobs plus open job boards, matched to my skills and rate
• Applications: tailored resumes, cover letters and pitches, written only from my real experience
• Site audits: reviews a prospect's website and turns the findings into a pitch email in one click
• Work library: tagged portfolio files, with the best samples suggested for each pitch
• Backups: automatic, every day, to Dropbox
It runs on my Mac, and it never sends an email, invoice or message on its own. I review everything first.
Still building, with more to come.
Looks amazing..is it a native app ?
Vänster Home GmbH
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Clean restructure from supplier titles to real product names, that step alone usually gets skipped. For a GmbH store selling into the rest of the EU, did you end up handling VAT-inclusive pricing per country through Shopify Markets, or did the client stick to one DE price shown everywhere?