Our current application is a platform that allows authors to sell access to their content through one time payments or subscriptions, and for users to read free and purchased material.

Users have requested the functionality to visualize key metrics such as author earnings, subscriber counts, and reader engagement. To address this, we would like to develop a data visualization dashboard for authors.

We would like students to focus on:

• Creating a standalone front-end application that interacts with our existing backend server. The front-end application will need to authenticate users using our authentication service or a 3rd party OAuth provider, retrieve and ingest user data from our backend server, and allow users to visualize, manipulate, and drill down into the returned data.

The final deliverables should take the form of a final report and presentation including:

• Documentation around models and attributes used to model any data.
• A brief wireframe or mock-up of the resulting system’s user interface.
• A product feature map detailing all possible interactions with the system and explaining design choices.
• The source code for the system, preferably in a source control system such as Git.

Students will communicate directly with the founders for mentorship and planning purposes during the duration of the project, available daily through our Discord server.

We will help students familiarize themselves with our existing application, and go over key concepts required for the success of the project, including but not limited to: OAuth flows, REST APIs, and project architecture design.