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The problem
An antique bookshop needed to sell thousands of one-of-a-kind books and records online.
Artifact 04 · Layer 03 · 2022
Staraknjiga
An antique bookshop, in production since 2022.
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What I built
The whole stack, alone: a Next.js storefront, a FeathersJS API, an admin dashboard for listings and orders, search, structured data for SEO, and the servers underneath.
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The hard part
Search in Serbian. Titles come with and without diacritics, so “Đurić” and “Djuric” have to find the same book. Normalized titles and authors are stored alongside the originals and searched instead.
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Where it is now
Live and selling since 2022. In 2026 I moved it to AWS Lightsail and MongoDB Atlas in a single afternoon.