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Beautonomy

A marketplace and promoting tool for beauty bloggers

Beautonomy is a platform where creators can share their makeup looks and earn some money.

Time:

6+ months

Type:

Beauty marketplace

Industry:

Web Development

Platform:

Web

ABOUT

Project Idea

Our client wants to create a universal platform for Instagram and YouTube beauty bloggers where they can create tutorials for their looks and get more recognition for their work.

The client had

  • Released website
  • Eyeshadow palette customizer
  • List of issues to fix
  • New ideas

Project challenges

  • AI implementation
  • Optimizing palette customizer
  • AWS server configuration
  • Fixing the website

Team

  • Project Manager
  • QA engineers
  • Backend engineers
  • UI/UX designer
  • Tech lead
  • Frontend engineers
  • JavaScript engineer

Wireframes

While creating wireframes, we thought about Beautonomy’s
usability for both creators and common users.

Technology Stack
Stack
Customiser
JavaScript
Marketplace
PHP, WordPress, WooCommerce, HTML/CSS
Parser
Node.js, Python

Key functions

Get the look

If you are a beauty blogger, Get the look will help you share your content with others and attract a new audience. A creator can organize their own page with detailed makeup tutorials that indicate each step and all the products used in it.

Marketplace

Beautonomy provides a platform for other brands to show themselves. Users can buy everything creators used in their makeup or choose offered alternatives. Apply a set of filters to choose the most suitable items.

Palette customizer

Besides being a market platform, Beautonomy creates its own eyeshadows and allows users to compose their own palettes. They can choose the size (8, 12, or up to 24 refills), rename the colors, and personalize the external design.

Challenges and Solutions

Here is what we dealt with while developing Beautonomy.

Parser

Problem:

For the makeup products used by the influencer to create their look to be shown on the Looks pages automatically, we need to collect all possible information about them from multiple sources. We can use data from Instagram posts, YouTube video caption tracks, and comments to get the necessary names and brands.

Solution:

We made it work with the help of a parser so now the process is automated.

Artificial intelligence implementation

Problem:

When a blogger lists the items of cosmetics they use to create a look, Beautonomy should correctly pick up their names even when they are incorrectly pronounced or written. Also, it should be able to recommend users proper alternatives of products.

Solution:

To complete this task, we added artificial intelligence and machine learning elements.

AWS server

Problem:

The initial configuration of the AWS server was poor and inadequate. The pages were loading extremely slow and the whole website could freeze for no reason.

Solution:

Our specialists fixed all AWS configuration and project architecture so now everything is working smoothly.

Palette customizer
optimization

Problem:

The palette customizer was made for easy integration with Shopify, but the platform itself is written on WooCommerce. It caused a conflict in the customizer’s endpoints.

Solution:

The team rewrote the endpoints of the customizer so it could integrate with the rest of the platform without any trouble.

What we have now

For now, we completed several milestones:

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