GDC Jewellery Lab — Next.js Storefront

The atelier's site originally depended on Firebase for hosting and services, which made it hard to manage and keep lean for a small business that just needs a fast, elegant storefront with a contact path to the workshop.

On top of the rebuild, the owner wanted visitors to be able to start a custom jewellery piece online — describing what they imagine — without the complexity of a full configurator.

I rebuilt the site on Next.js 14 with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS, deploying to Vercel, and removed the Firebase dependency entirely: the codebase imports no Firebase/Firestore/Auth code at all.

For the custom-piece flow I added AI-assisted flows built with Genkit (@genkit-ai/google-genai), letting visitors describe a bespoke piece and get guided through the process toward the workshop.

The design got a full luxury restyle — deep black with champagne gold and serif headlines — and the gallery was reworked so image previews carry no text overlays, keeping the pieces themselves the focus.

The new storefront is live on Vercel: faster to manage, fully decoupled from Firebase, and consistent with the atelier's luxury positioning.

One known limitation remains: the contact form's mail delivery is currently offline because the Gmail app password is not yet set in the Vercel environment variables — a single config step on the owner's side that is clearly flagged rather than silently broken.