StyleHub – Building a Fashion Storefront with Bolt-Powered Speed

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WLH Challenge: Building with Bolt Submission

This is a submission for the World's Largest Hackathon Writing Challenge: Building with Bolt.

During the World's Largest Hackathon, I challenged myself to create a full-fledged e-commerce platform with a sleek design, responsive layout, and modern developer tooling. The result? StyleHub — an online fashion store with a futuristic vibe, powered by React and styled with Tailwind CSS.

This project helped me explore new UI design patterns, refine my frontend skills, and experience what it feels like to ship a modern digital storefront in a fast-paced environment.

🛠️ What I Built

StyleHub

A e-commerce web app with the following features:

Fully responsive homepage with hero banner and featured categories
Navigation bar with routing to Home, Shop, Categories, Blog, Contact, and Login
Visually engaging product thumbnails using high-resolution images
Deployed on Netlify for global reach

🔗 Live Site
(https://stylehub-dev.netlify.app)

GitHub Repo
(https://github.com/pooja-bhavani/StyleHub)

⚡️ The Bolt Factor

I used AI suggestions from tools like GitHub Copilot to:

Refine my component structure
Implement responsive utility classes faster
Optimize the navigation bar and image gallery layouts
Debug tricky UI issues in minutes

These tools boosted my productivity and let me focus on creativity and UX.

Lessons Learned

Simplicity and speed in UI go a long way — Tailwind + component-driven design helped tremendously.
Previewing UI changes in real-time while deploying on Netlify was a game-changer.
The power of developer tools (like Bolt/Copilot) makes solo-hackathon projects feel collaborative.