FLASHY

I had this one top that I really liked, but I had no idea what it was or how to find other pieces like it. It didn’t even have a proper tag, so I couldn’t search for the brand or product name. I remember thinking that finding fashion online shouldn’t be this difficult. That’s where the idea for Flashy started.

I wanted to make a fashion app where you could simply take a picture of something and quickly understand what it is, but I didn’t want it to stop at just identifying the item. I wanted it to show you similar fashion, different prices, real products, deals, trends, and styling ideas so that one picture could actually help you discover much more.

Building it was honestly a lot harder than I expected. A lot of things broke, APIs didn’t work the way I expected, the AI sometimes misunderstood niche fashion pieces, images and data didn’t always connect properly, and there were so many small bugs that I kept thinking I was finally done only to find something else that needed fixing.

I’m still a student and I’m still learning, so there were a lot of things I didn’t know how to do when I started. But that was also one of the reasons I wanted to build this. I wanted to push myself, learn technologies I hadn’t worked with before, improve my development skills, and understand how a real application works from the frontend all the way to the backend, database, authentication, AI, APIs, and deployment.

There were definitely moments where it was frustrating and I wanted to leave things unfinished, but every time something broke, I learned something new while fixing it. After all the debugging, rebuilding, researching, and learning, I finally reached a point where I could look at Flashy and say that I actually built this.

It started with one top that I couldn’t identify, and turned into a whole fashion intelligence app that I built while still learning along the way.

Built With

• 2.5
• api
• apis
• fastify
• flash
• gemini
• image
• jwt
• multimodal
• native
• node.js
• object
• orm
• postgresqlgoogle
• presigned
• prisma
• react
• rest
• storage
• typescript
• uploads