The Goal: Continuing my mission to open up the walled gardens of the web.
The Tech Stack: Leveraging Next.js 14 App Router for the IG profile engine.
The Challenge: Handling Instagram’s media-heavy feeds (Reels & Tagged) was a much bigger architectural hurdle than Twitter.
Link: https://ig-profile-viewer.com
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For those curious about the internals: I’m leveraging Next.js 14’s App Router and server-side data fetching to bypass the heavy client-side tracking usually found on IG. The main challenge was architecting a stable media proxy for high-res Reels and Tagged content without triggering rate-limits. Happy to discuss the backend scaling if anyone's interested!