Mintagram

Inspiration

My inspiration comes from wanting to make an impact.

What it does

Mintagram offers a lot of features. The most valuable feature is our turn-key approach for minting NFTs on the XRP Ledger. Minting is open to all mintagram users (artists, photographers, and/or YOU) by use of the users camera (webcam, front-facing camera, rear-facing camera). Other features include:

Comments on NFT posts
Database search of users and tokenIDs
Bulletin board of most recent mints
Bookmarks and likes tied to NFT's
Shareable NFTs with friends (QR code or link)

In the next few weeks, we will continue our testing and add a marketplace feature to all users to buy and sell NFTs directly in Mintagram. Also, the platform will be 100% compatible with XUMM and will be offered as an xApp to XUMM users.

How we built it

I built it with ReactJS, NodeJS, MongoDB, self-hosted IPFS node and gateway. I built it over the past month and have learned a lot along the way!

Challenges we ran into

I ran into many challenges. I found that managing an IPFS node/database, my personal database (MongoDB), and interacting with the XRPL was a lot to juggle.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I am proud of what I have built, and I am excited to see how far I can take this project.

What we learned

Everything that you see was learnt. I learned the in's and out's of ReactJS. I built my first database in MongoDB. I learned how to deploy development environments with Docker and how this can simplify a project with multiple gears. I learned how powerful IPFS is and some of its shortcomings. I learned XLS20d.