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AI-Powered Portfolio Builder
A professional portfolio builder designed to help users create and manage a personalized online portfolio through an intuitive web interface.
Key Feature — Voice-to-Text
The platform integrates OpenAI Whisper to convert spoken input into text, allowing users to provide portfolio information through voice instead of manually typing everything.
Core Features
🎙️ Voice-to-Text with Whisper
👤 Profile & personal information management
💼 Skills and experience management
🎓 Education details
📝 Portfolio content management
✏️ Edit and customize portfolio information
🌐 Professional portfolio generation
🔐 User authentication and profile management
💾 Persistent database storage
Technology Stack
ASP.NET MVC · C# · Entity Framework Core · SQL Server · OpenAI Whisper · HTML · CSS · JavaScript
Project Focus
The project demonstrates the integration of AI-powered speech recognition into a web application, creating a more natural and efficient way for users to provide and manage their professional information.
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Millstream Fencing Supplies — AI-Powered E-commerce & Business Management Platform (Concept Demo)
Overview
I came across a Facebook post from a local fencing supplier looking for someone to build an e-commerce website. Instead of sending a portfolio or proposal, I challenged myself to build a complete working demonstration tailored to their business.
The goal wasn't simply to create a website—it was to show how technology could streamline their sales process, automate operations, and improve the customer experience.
The Challenge
The business wanted a website that would allow customers to:
Browse fence panels, sheds and related products
Select product sizes and quantities
Place orders and make secure online payments
Request delivery and installation
Provide customer and delivery information
Work seamlessly across mobile, tablet and desktop devices
Be easy for staff to manage and update
Behind these requirements was a larger business problem: too much time spent handling enquiries, creating quotes manually, coordinating deliveries and managing customer information through messages and phone calls.
My Solution
Rather than building a standard e-commerce website, I designed a modern, mobile-first ordering platform paired with a complete business management dashboard.
The result is a digital platform that allows customers to order products online while giving staff a central place to manage the entire business.
Customer Experience
The customer-facing application includes:
Responsive, mobile-first interface
Modern product catalogue
Product configuration with size and quantity selection
Shopping cart and streamlined checkout
Delivery and installation request options
Customer enquiry and quote forms
Project gallery
Customer reviews
Contact and support pages
The interface was designed to be simple, intuitive and easy to use on any device.
Business Management Dashboard
Alongside the customer website, I developed a complete internal management system that enables staff to oversee daily operations from one place.
Dashboard Overview
Live business metrics
Revenue tracking
Orders overview
Pending quotes
Deliveries
Installation schedule
Interactive charts and reports
Order Management
Complete order lifecycle
Status tracking
Customer timelines
Order details
Payment tracking
Quote Management
Quote creation
Quote status management
Convert quotes into orders
Customer follow-up workflow
Customer CRM
Customer profiles
Contact information
Order history
Quote history
Notes and communication tracking
Product Management
Product catalogue
Pricing management
Categories
Inventory-ready structure
Delivery Planner
Delivery scheduling
Drag-and-drop planner
Delivery status management
Installation Management
Installation scheduling
Team assignments
Photo uploads
Job completion tracking
Review Management
Customer review moderation
Featured reviews
Approval workflow
Reports & Analytics
Revenue reports
Order trends
Business insights
Operational reporting
Technology
The platform was built using Base44 as a rapid application development platform, enabling a fully connected front-end and back-office experience with realistic demo data and a functional database.
Outcome
The final product demonstrates how a traditional local business can benefit from modern digital tools that go beyond a simple website.
Instead of creating an online brochure, the platform functions as a complete business operating system—helping reduce manual administration, improve customer experience, centralize operations and support future growth.
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