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Built RetroGrasp — an e-commerce store with an AI-generated UI on the front end and Shopify running the backend. 📼
The stack: Lovable designed and built the entire storefront UI, while Shopify handles inventory, checkout, and store logic underneath — AI-native front end, battle-tested e-commerce backend.
A few things that make it more than just a themed store:
🎨 Retro Image Generator — visitors can turn their own photos into 90s-style retro edits directly on the site, tying the interactive experience back to the brand's whole "step into the 90s" concept
🕹️ Arcade Games — playable retro mini-games built right into the site, turning a shopping visit into something you actually stick around for
🛒 Full Shopify catalog — Walkmans, boomboxes, VHS players, cassettes and more, with Analog Press letting customers send in their own tapes for digital transfer
This is what happens when you stop treating "AI website builder" and "e-commerce platform" as separate categories — Lovable for the experience layer, Shopify for the commerce layer, working together instead of one replacing the other.
Check it out: retrograsp.com
This is amazing! Wow! was this for a client or hobby project?
This one was a hobby project to try mixing lovable and Shopify as I feel like Shopify is limited in UI design
Thats really amazing actually! And with Shopify being a demanding platform even today, you would easily be able to deploy this soon :D
Already deployed running, took 2 days in total 😊
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Which Footer should I choose🤔?
Enterprise Client in Cybersecurity Industry
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Footer 2 fit in for that kind of industry
a piece of advice from a designer who started at 12 and is still figuring it out at 21:
the work matters. but so does the rest.
take breaks.
go outside.
close the laptop.
stop waiting until the project is done to feel okay. it's never fully done.
charge what you're worth. say no to bad fits.
pick clients you actually want to work with.
learn the idea behind the design.
learn the offer.
learn why it works.
and talk to people. other designers, other freelancers, people doing something completely different.
it helps more than any course.
you don't have to have it all figured out at 21. or 25.
or ever, probably.
just keep showing up and doing good work.