SOL NFT Watch

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Inspiration

As someone who recently got into the NFT space I found it took too much time to keep up with how collections were doing. Sitting on a page hitting refresh and checking between listings and activities was one thing but to have to do it again for 10+ collections was too much. Existing analytics tools were ok but none of them had everything I was looking for, and so the idea for solnftwatch.com was created.

What it does

It watches Solana NFTs on Magic Eden and produces charts, analytics, and related information all in one place. The idea is to save time and better manage your NFT investments.

How I built it

The 1st 4 days were spent planning, researching, and designing–I needed to nail down key features, UX flow, and data architecture. After that, building the pages were relatively simple. Sveltekit combined with tailwindcss allowed for fast UI iterations, while Netlify, Hasura, and nhost provided a rich backend infrastructure that could be managed with button clicks.

Challenges we ran into

Data integration was by far the hardest challenge.

Collections, stats, activities, and tokens had to be fetched, stored, fetched again, and updated in a way that was frequent, scalable, and free. With a regular server this may have been fine but fetching 4000+ collections with related statistics at frequent intervals, many times 1 request at a time, on serverless functions with a 10 second timeout proved to be quite the challenge.

Integrating the data into the UI was a lot of work too but the tools available made it straightforward.