Marketplace
Realtime backend
Production
Project snapshot.
Brief, build, and outcome.
The Challenge
Art Place needed a marketplace where artists could focus on creativity and collectors could discover work — without the friction of typical e-commerce platforms. Image-heavy pages had to load fast.
Our Approach
We built a two-sided marketplace on Next.js + Supabase with an image pipeline tuned for portfolio-grade visuals at speed.
The Outcome
Art Place is live at artplace.au, hosting artist portfolios and collector discovery on a fast, image-optimized marketplace.
Achievements & deliverables.
Shipped a two-sided creative marketplace where artists publish portfolios and collectors discover work — image-heavy and fast.
Two-sided marketplace
Artists and collectors operate on the same platform with role-aware experiences and feature gates.
Supabase backend
Auth, realtime subscriptions, and storage handled on Supabase — fast to ship, easy to scale.
Optimized image pipeline
High-resolution artwork served at portfolio quality without sacrificing page load — responsive image variants and CDN caching.
Custom artist portfolios
Each artist gets a themed portfolio page with their own brand voice, hosted on the platform.
Discovery & search
Collectors can browse, search, and filter artwork — designed for serendipity, not just transactions.
Live in production
In production at artplace.au, hosting real artist portfolios.
What we shipped.
Two-sided marketplace architecture (artists + collectors)
Supabase backend for auth, realtime, and storage
Optimized image pipeline for high-resolution artwork
Artist portfolio pages with custom theming
Discovery and search experience for collectors
Engineered with.
A modern, battle-tested stack chosen for performance, scale, and team velocity.
