Tapestry is a social platform designed to foster tight-knit communities through interactive group spaces, private group chats, and shared scrapbooks. Unlike mainstream social media platforms that focus on large-scale broadcasting, Tapestry prioritizes meaningful interactions in small, dedicated hubs.
- Enable users to join and interact in multiple communities.
- Facilitate seamless sharing of text, images, and other media within community hubs.
- Provide a scrapbook-style feed for preserving memories and announcements.
- Encourage engagement through group chats and discussions.
- Sign-up/Login via email.
- Profile creation with profile picture, bio, and interests.
- Option to join or create communities during onboarding.
- Users can view all joined communities in a dashboard.
- Each community has a unique feed structured as a scrapbook or announcement board.
- Users can create posts (text, images, videos, and links).
- Posts are displayed in a dynamic, visually engaging format (collage-like).
- Users can react, comment, and tag members in posts.
- Pinning important posts or announcements.
- Sign up and log in with ease.
- See all my communities on the homepage.
- Post text, images, and videos in my community’s scrapbook.
- Engage with other members via likes, comments, and reactions.
- Communicate in real-time through group chats.
- Join new communities or create my own.
- Control my privacy settings and notifications.
- Approve or decline new members.
- Manage posts and moderate discussions.
- Set rules and guidelines for engagement.
- Frontend: React, JavaScript
- Backend: Node.js (Express)
- Database: MySQL
- Authentication: Rolled our own Auth
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{ "message": "Community created successfully and user added.", "community": { "id": "95fbcd4e-e909-478e-bf0c-ca470e2a344f", "title": "Coffeeshops", "topic": "Cafes and Coffee Lovers", "photo": "images/COFFEESHOP_1.jpg", "alt_text": "A cozy coffee shop corner", "created_at": "2025-03-04T20:22:16.000Z", "updated_at": "2025-03-04T20:22:16.000Z" } }
{ "id": "df6e9602-91f8-4690-a658-4ea65c45fdb7", "post*text": "Excited for the upcoming Coldplay concert! Who's going?", "postmedia": "images/CONCERTPHOTO_1.jpg", "created_at": "2025-02-28T01:53:11.000Z", "community_id": "142f3d8e-6219-4d66-a2ff-80c98c9b2912", "user_email": "***@**.com" }
{ "id": "32124de1-5873-46ef-9e96-c584be789b33", "posttext": "Excited for the upcoming Coldplay concert! Who's going?", "post_media": null, "created_at": "2025-03-04T18:39:07.000Z", "community_id": "142f3d8e-6219-4d66-a2ff-80c98c9b2912", "user_email": "**@_**.com", "first_name": "Alice", "last_name": "Brown", "username": "alice_brown", "profile_picture": "images/PROFILEPHOTO_6.jpg" }
{ "message": "Post deleted successfully" }
{ "id": "8536449b-10e1-433f-b723-eccb03827cae", "firstname": "John", "last_name": "Doe", "username": "john_doe", "email": "**@.com", "password": "", "profile*picture": "images/PROFILEPHOTO_1.jpg", "created_at": "2025-02-28T01:53:11.000Z", "updated_at": "2025-02-28T01:53:11.000Z" }
{ }
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{ "id": "8536449b-10e1-433f-b723-eccb03827cae", "firstname": "John", "last_name": "Doe", "username": "john_doe", "email": "@_.com", "password": "$2b$08$KgP0JJeGzS5sL7mj71r1c.xUCfiIJ/8tuBflCMHfxPj2N8COuRK12", "profile_picture": "images/PROFILEPHOTO_1.jpg", "created_at": "2025-02-28T01:53:11.000Z", "updated_at": "2025-02-28T01:53:11.000Z" }
[ { "id": "142f3d8e-6219-4d66-a2ff-80c98c9b2912", "title": "Coffeeshops" }, { "id": "f35cfbd1-79b7-4ce1-af0f-cc0cb3be8c93", "title": "Web Developers" } ]
- Home Page: Grid or list view of communities.
- Community Page: Scrapbook-style layout, pinned posts at the top.
- Post Creation: Easy-to-use editor for adding text, images, and selecting a community.
- Profile Page: At-a-glance profile view with user communities.
- User authentication.
- Community creation & management.
- Scrapbook-style feed.
- Group chats.
- Post reactions & comments.
- Improved media handling.
- Privacy settings & moderation tools.
- Recommendation engine for communities.
- Performance optimizations.
- User Retention Rate: Weekly/Monthly active users.
- Engagement Rate: Posts, comments, reactions per user.
- Community Growth Rate.
- User Feedback & Satisfaction Ratings. |
- User Authentication & Onboarding: Option to join or create communities during onboarding.
- Scrapbook-Style Feed: Pinning important posts or announcements.
- Group Chats & Messaging:
- Direct messages between members.
- Reactions.
- Message Editing.
- Link Previews.
- Voice & Video Calls.
- Privacy & Moderation:
- Public and private communities.
- Moderation tools (remove posts, ban users, manage permissions).
- Advanced notification settings.
- Community Moderation:
- Approve or decline new members.
- Manage posts and moderate discussions.
- Set rules and guidelines for engagement.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/savannahmc/ https://github.com/savannahmartin