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Rimba Atelier

A bilingual storefront and operating dashboard that took a local leather atelier online without making a developer the bottleneck.

Rimba Atelier English homepage with a leather bag photograph, editorial headline, and shop navigation.
What exists
Status
In production
Source
Public
Evidence
Production site · Architecture · Data model · Workflow · Screenshots
Stack
TypeScript · Next.js · React · PostgreSQL · Prisma

01
Overview

What this is

Rimba Atelier is a public storefront and an authenticated operating dashboard for a maker-led leather atelier. The storefront presents the brand, catalogue, product detail, and editorial content in Indonesian and English; the admin gives the business one place to manage the material those pages depend on.

The product was built as two independently deployed applications over a shared PostgreSQL model. That separation keeps the public surface narrow while giving the owner a purpose-built workspace for products, availability, media, navigation, homepage composition, and translations.

Built for Rimba Atelier: a working leather-goods business that needed a public digital home and an internal publishing surface it could operate without a developer.

The problem

A static or developer-managed site would turn ordinary catalogue and content changes into engineering work. The atelier needed to publish in two languages, keep product information and imagery coherent, and evolve the storefront without duplicating the same content across separate systems.

What I built and owned

I shaped the product, designed and built the storefront and admin applications, defined the shared content and commerce model, implemented the localization and publishing workflows, and carried the system through production deployment. Rimba Atelier owns the products, brand, photography, and business operations.

Disclosure

This case study covers the software I designed and built. Rimba Atelier’s products, brand, photography, and business operations remain its own.

02
Detail

How it works

One source of truth, two operating surfaces

The split between storefront and admin is an operating decision, not a diagramming preference. Public visitors receive the catalogue and editorial experience; authenticated users receive the tools that change it. Both applications depend on the same product and content definitions, so publishing does not mean synchronizing two versions of the truth.

The admin is intentionally specific to the atelier. It exposes product readiness, media, localized fields, navigation, and page composition in the language of the business rather than asking an owner to understand a generic database console.

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What the system gives the atelier

  • 01

    One bilingual catalogue

    Products and editorial content carry Indonesian and English variants without becoming two disconnected sites.

  • 02

    Owner-operated publishing

    Products, availability, media, navigation, and homepage content can change without a deployment.

  • 03

    Actionable completeness

    The admin names blockers and warnings so “ready to publish” has an operational meaning.

  • 04

    A narrow public boundary

    The storefront has no reason to carry admin authentication, content mutation, or upload credentials.

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Text description of this diagram

Rimba Atelier has two independently deployed applications. The public storefront is a read-only consumer of catalogue and editorial content. The authenticated admin is the write surface for products, availability, media references, navigation, page composition, translations, publishing state, and completeness rules.

Both applications use one shared PostgreSQL domain model. Media files are delivered from external storage while the database keeps their references and content relationships. This keeps the public application narrow without creating a second catalogue to synchronize.

Claim boundary

This case study claims the live storefront and its content operation. It does not claim sales uplift, payment integration, shipping automation, or business metrics that have not been measured and approved for publication.

03
Result

What came of it

shippedThe bilingual storefront is live at rimbaatelier.com and serves the atelier’s public catalogue and brand content.Visit Rimba Atelier ↗
reproducibleProducts, availability, media, navigation, homepage content, and Indonesian/English copy can be managed through the authenticated admin without a storefront code change.Current V2 content and catalogue workflow.
reproducibleThe public storefront is kept separate from the authenticated write surface while both read the same product and content model.
reproducibleProduct Completeness turns missing publishing requirements into named blockers and warnings instead of a vague ready/not-ready flag.

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