Ante is a modern social platform for discovering, saving, and sharing favorite locations while creating collaborative travel itineraries. Users can build a personal profile, organize locations into custom sections, plan and update trip itineraries, and share posts that friends can like or comment on.
Key features include:
- Customizable user profiles (bio, location, followers/following)
- Interactive map search for adding locations
- Trip itineraries with event-level details
- Social interactions through posts, comments, and likes
- Dynamic user routing (e.g.,
/username) - Auto-generated SEO metadata
- Robust error handling for invalid or nonexistent profiles
- Smooth, real-time UI interactions using modals, tabs, and conditional rendering
Technologies & Tools
Frontend & Framework
- Next.js – Routing, server-side rendering, SEO metadata
- React – Component-based UI architecture
- shadcn/ui – Accessible, polished UI components
- lucide-react – Consistent icon set
Backend & Data
- Prisma – ORM for relational data modeling and querying
- Neon – Serverless PostgreSQL database
- Clerk – Authentication, user sessions, and profile metadata
Development & DevOps
- TypeScript – Strong typing and improved DX
- Vercel – Hosting, deployment, and build optimization
- Visual Studio Code – Primary development environment
