What is Icongen.io?
I’ve started working on Icongen.io as I wanted to explore the T3 stack (NextJS / Prisma / tRPC / TailwindCSS) and I wanted to build something that I could use myself. I’ve been using Heroicons for a while now and I wanted to be able to generate the icons I needed without having to download the whole package.
On top of practicing the stack, I also wanted to practice building in public. I’ve been following Pieter Levels for a while now and I really like the idea of building in public. I’ve been doing it for a while now on Twitter and I wanted to take it a step further by building a website where I could share my progress.
What is the stack?
As state I wanted to practice more with the T3 stack, I wanted to learn and use tRPC. I use NextAuth for the auth and Supabase for the DB. I’ve been using TailwindCSS for a while now and I really like it, so I wanted to use it for this project as well. I use Dalle for the AI portion and have learn a lot about prompt engineering as well.
Stripe integration for the payment method.
What is the status?
Icongen is now having more then 130 user, 1600 icons generated at the time of the writting. I’ve been able to learn alot.
What is next?
I would like to continue improving the site and add more features. I’m also practicing and trying to improve the SEO. I will go over the SEO portion in another post.