Kreatopia

Inspiration

Indonesia is seeing a rise of artists, illustrators, and writers. These creators would rely on massive public events, such as comic book conventions, to share and sell their works to people who share the same pop-culture hobby.

However, Indonesia has yet to have a platform that allows creators and fans to meet in one place, so they don't have to wait months for an event just to show the comics they drew, to sell art merchandise they made, and sustain their passion project.

This problem is further complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic, where public conventions would be severely limited!

What it does

Kreatopia is a platform for Indonesian art creators to showcase and earn money for their work.

Fans can support their favorite local creators by buying their merchandise, as well as enjoying their webcomic simply through few clicks.

How we built it

We created the platform using React for front-end, and Express+Sequelize+PostgreSQL for back-end.
Routine online communication to ensure we always know what each of us are working on.
Streaming session where we share and teach our programming tricks.

Challenges we ran into

React.js wasn't exactly Akanksha's forte, and Agung was already busy with back-end issues. So there's a lot of room where the front-end could have been better. A lot of things ended up being hard-coded. Didn't have time to deploy the site either.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

First time properly using Material UI in React app!
A relatively robust back-end system.
Agung's first hackathon!

What we learned

We learned how to prioritize our code. Sometimes we don't need that one "cool" feature because there is something more important to address.

What's next for Kreatopia

Reworking on the UI/UX as to make this website more "artsy" looking, as well as researching for small yet significant features that are generally favored by artists.

(This project was created for 2-days Garuda Hackathon)