Seeing and Hearing Memories — Adding Multimedia to VibeVault

Most journal applications rely only on text.

But real memories are often visual and audible.

While building VibeVault, I added full multimedia support so users can attach:

📸 Photos

🎥 Videos

🎙️ Audio files

Instead of treating uploads as raw files, I implemented an automated tagging system that categorizes media based on the memory’s context. This allows better filtering and future search capabilities.

What I learned building this feature:

Handling multipart uploads from React

Validating and processing files in Django REST Framework

Structuring media storage efficiently

Managing large files without impacting API performance

Designing scalable backend workflows

Media handling introduced challenges I hadn’t faced before — especially around storage structure, file size limits, and response optimization.

This feature helped me move beyond basic CRUD applications and understand what production-level file processing actually looks like in a full-stack system.

🔗 Source code:
👉 https://github.com/thiyagu26v/vibevault