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Silent Auction

A silent-auction app made for a friend’s December 2025 group art show, where visitors scanned a piece’s QR code to bid, now presented as a browser demo with a simulated rival.

Complete · Interactive demo

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Silent-auction demo showing an artwork, a simulated outbid notice, the updated current bid, and controls to bid again.

Screenshot · Piece after simulated outbid · Client-side demo

Built
Dec 2025 – Sep 2026
Role
Solo
Stack
Next.js · React · Supabase (event build)
Status
complete

Bidding from the artwork

The original app was built for a friend’s December 2025 group art show. Visitors could scan a piece’s QR code to reach its bidding page.

The interactive demo

The current demo uses fictional artists and pieces. Bids are saved in localStorage, and a simulated rival demonstrates the outbid notice and the path to bidding again. It runs entirely client-side, with no database or email service.

Event build and evidence

The December 2025 source history contains a Supabase Realtime subscription for bid updates, a Twilio SMS function, and a switch to requesting outbid emails. That history does not establish which revision ran at the event or whether email was delivered. No usage or outcome measurement is published here.