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07
Personal Product

The Nen

A wallpaper platform for creators.

Role
Founder · Lead Engineer
Company
Personal Product
Stack
NestJS · PostgreSQL · Supabase
Status
Live
01 — chapter

Problem

Existing wallpaper sites feel like ad-farms — creators are an afterthought.

02 — chapter

Research

Followed wallpaper communities on Reddit and Twitter. Everyone had a Dropbox link and no analytics. The gap was infrastructure, not taste.

03 — chapter

Architecture

  1. 01NestJS API with typed contracts\nPostgreSQL with Supabase for auth & storage\nModern web frontend with fast image discovery\nAPI-driven design ready for mobile clients
04 — chapter

Development

Backend-first. Nailed the storage, likes, collections and downloads pipeline before touching the UI.

05 — chapter

Challenges

Serving originals cheaply. Layered Cloudflare in front of storage and generated responsive derivatives on demand.

06 — chapter

Results

Live full-stack platform with creator profiles, collections and a public API.

07 — stack used
  • NestJS
  • PostgreSQL
  • Supabase
  • TypeScript