gilded-tin

gildedtin.party is a tinned fish review site. my sister came up with the idea and she thought it would be fun to have a way to review tinned fish and share the reviews with each other. the site’s basic functionality is:

• create a profile
• review tinned fish across
• salinity
• sweetness
• fishiness
• spiciness
• texture
• overall score
• you can add pictures to reviews
• taste profile (weighted based on your reviews)
• recommendations from other tinned fish
• badges for various accomplishments/milestones like # of reviews, etc.

art

i used picocad2 to make this low poly 3d sprite for the site as well. the logo above (at the top) was also my first time doing a vector trace with the pen tool (using inkscape), which was fun.

tech stack

• backend uses rocket + clerk for authentication/user management + sqlite
• front end uses vite + typescript

one fun thing i added was that the backend in rust will generate some of the types for typescript

LLM assistance

it’s my first project that i’ve made using any substantial LLM assistance and i feel somewhat conflicted about that. i think the experience let me understand more fully the degree to which i find LLMs useful when developing, and where i think it would’ve been better/fasterr and overall just preferrable to avoid the LLM. in particular, i spent a lot of time re-creating things, deleting things, going back and forth, fixing things the LLM broke, and then finally just abandoning the LLM usage at a certain point as it was no longer helpful and made things worse it seems each time. i didn’t use the LLM for the images, but did for the animations and badges. it was an interesting learning experience.

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