Welcome to Atelier
A prevalent issue artists face is the struggle to make a consistent and stable living from their work. There are many excellent artists out there yet a sparse number of consumers who will buy their art. Only certain top-tier artists gain widespread popularity and a solid income. This app is a means for aspiring artists to upload their art and gain a following. Many social media apps allow people to share their art, but this is masked by all the other things one can do on social media.
Here Comes Our Idea
Our app lets users post just their art, find and become friends with other artists, explore other beautiful artwork, and chat with fellow creatives! Atelier doesn’t just let you connect and explore the amazing world of art, but it also lets aspiring creatives list a price for their work and connect with interested buyers, collectors and collaborators through our chat feature so that passionate artists can turn their heart-felt work into a product. The opportunity to get recognized in their community and truly experience appreciation for their work in multiple ways is just another cherry on the top.
Explore Our Features
Watch this video to learn about the functionality of our app!
Snapshots of different screens
Once you login or register, you can view a home page to see what your friends posted recently, and like or comment
Edit your profile, and add some featured posts from your uploads!
Find artists and request to be friends. Pending requests appear on notifications tab
Add your own art, Explore the app, Search for new public content
More Cool Features Coming Soon
In the future we hope to implement three major changes
- The first feature we would like to implement is integrating a secure paying system so users can directly sell and buy art. We believe this will simplify making a transaction and also enhance the user experience.
- Our next goal is to tailor the explore page for each individual user, based on the accounts they follow or the posts they like. We want to identify these patterns, so we cater to the specific interests of each individual within broad spectrum, that is art.
- The final feature we plan on implementing is Hahtag searching and Stories. Stories within Atelier will allow users to capture and post related images in a slideshow format. The content of the Story will be available for only a certain amount of time, approximately 24 hours. We believe this feature will make it possible for users to showcase their art without creating an excess amount of posts on their page.
We hope we can implement these changes to give artists a unique platform while enhancing their experience on our app
Our Technology
Ionic Framework - Node.js - Firebase
Meet the Team
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Ishita Thumati
Team lead. Ishita’s a senior majoring in Computer Engineering. She delegated our tasks and led meetings as well as worked heavily on core functionality.
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Mercy Barigala
Mercy is senior majoring in Computer Science. She was in charge of implementing the Explore Page.
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Saipriya Sairam
Saipriya is senior majoring in Computer Science. She developed the User Uploads Page.
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Gurinder Bahra
Developer. Gurinder is senior majoring in Computer Engineering. He designed and implemented the Home Page and all user interactivity on posts.
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Adiv Sivakumar
Developer. Adiv’s a senior majoring in Computer Science. He designed the icon, and implemented user interaction with friends.
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Testing
E2E
The purpose of End to end testing is to simulate the real user scenario and validate the system under test and its components for integration and data integrity.
Instruction:
run the command: npm run e2e.