ShipStation, https://shipstation.ai is ever growing work on agents and tools that empowers Dick and John et al to consume the wonders of AI for getting tasks done reliably. This project leverages Anthropic's AI tools capabilities to streamline the website creation process.

To begin with, we are optimising simple landing page websites, next stop being generic connect-anything-to-anything services.

Imagine working on some new platform which has solved a lot of good problems but just doesn't work effectively for you as the provioder of the service can't understand you and you can't understand the provider.

Our WIP tool is able to solve it with very high accuracies, say 95% of the time so that you, the saas provider and the required integration partner never need to be aware of each other and things get done for you.

• User authentication (login/signup) via SupaBase
• Basic landing page to communicate with user and understand what would make them happy
• View previously generated projects and featured websites
• Option to use personal Anthropic API key for free usage
• Integrated payment options via Razorpay/PayPal for purchasing credits
• Real-time progress tracking during website generation

The project is divided into two main parts:

1. Server-side (Node.js) - located in the server folder
2. Client-side (React with Vite) - located in the client folder
3. Public folder for serving the shipstation.ai website

• Node.js (v20 or later recommended)
• npm or yarn
• Anthropic API key
• Razorpay account (for payment integration)
• Supabase account (for auth and more)
• Heroku for the server (for deploying itself)
• Bucketeer Heroku Addon for storing and retrieving the generated website

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/daytimedrinkingclub/shipstation-backend.git

2. Install server dependencies:

npm install

3. Setup environments: Copy .env.template to .env and fill in the required environment variables.
4. Start the backend server from the repo directory

npm run dev

5. Install client depenencies, in a new terminal

cd client
npm install

6. Start the client from the client directory

cd client
npm run dev

7. Build the client

cd client
npm run build

Ensure all environment variables are properly set in both .env files. Refer to the .env.template files for the required variables. Use .env.local and .env.production for development and production environments respectively.

1. Access the application through the browser (default: http://localhost:5173) Refer client dev server logs of npm run dev
2. Sign up or log in to your account
3. Choose between creating a landing page or portfolio
4. Add the details for getting a website as output.

The websites are stored in s3 bucket and served on the path https://shipstation.ai/site/website-slug

1. Build the client project

cd client
npm run build

2. Commit the changes
3. Push to the main branch
4. Heroku will automatically detect the changes and deploy the app

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