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Personal Product

The Nen

A wallpaper platform for creators.

Project overview
Role
Founder / Lead Engineer
Company
Personal Product
Status
Live
Core stack
NestJS / PostgreSQL / Supabase
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Problem

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

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Research

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

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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
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Development

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

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Challenges

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

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Results

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

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