ArtHub

📝 Project Overview

ArtHub is a full-stack digital art marketplace built with the MERN stack that connects independent artists with art collectors. It features a role-based system (Admin, Artist, Buyer) with dedicated dashboards, Stripe Checkout for one-time artwork purchases and subscription upgrades, tiered subscription plans (Free, Pro, Premium) with monthly purchase limits, BetterAuth authentication with email/password and Google OAuth, and an admin analytics dashboard with Recharts-powered daily revenue tracking. The platform also includes search, category filtering, sorting, server-side pagination, and a comment system for buyers.

⚙️ Tech Stack

⚡ Challenges Faced

• 1Building a reliable Stripe webhook-driven purchase flow that inserts purchase records, marks artworks as sold, and updates monthly purchase counters atomically.
• 2Designing a role-based access system (Admin, Artist, Buyer) with protected routes and automatic redirects to an unauthorized page on role mismatch.
• 3Enforcing subscription business rules such as monthly purchase limits, auto-resetting counters each month, and blocking artists from purchasing or commenting.
• 4Combining search, category/status filtering, sorting, and server-side pagination into a single MongoDB query pipeline for the artworks endpoint.

🚀 Future Improvements

• →Add real-time notifications for purchases and comments using WebSockets or SSE.
• →Build public artist portfolio pages showcasing all artworks by an artist.
• →Implement a wishlist/favorites system so buyers can save artworks for later.
• →Add an artist payout system using Stripe Connect for direct revenue splits.