Kick Fund Bite
A marketplace helping artists create and sell premium designer art toys without upfront production costs.
- Role
- Frontend Engineering
- Period
- 2022 – 2025
Full project details shared with permission.
Product
Kick Fund Bite helps artists create and sell premium designer art toys without carrying upfront production costs — a dynamic marketplace experience built around artist and product discovery.
A marketplace connecting artists with buyers for designer art toys, removing the upfront production risk typically involved in bringing a physical product to market.
Context
Professional Experience · Salt Technology · 2022 – 2025
My Role
- Built responsive, reusable components across the marketplace frontend
- Implemented dynamic content rendering for products and artist listings
- Applied lazy loading, image optimization and code splitting
- Built form validation and UI transitions for key interactions
Challenge
The frontend needed to handle dynamic, image-heavy product content at marketplace scale while staying fast and usable on mobile, where much of this audience browses.
- Rendering image-heavy product and artist listings without hurting load time
- Designing a mobile-first experience that didn't feel like a shrunk desktop layout
Approach
- Prioritized mobile-first layout decisions and progressive image loading given the visual, discovery-driven nature of the product.
Engineering
- Built reusable product and listing components with lazy-loaded, optimized imagery
- Applied code splitting to keep initial load lean across marketplace pages
- Used lazy loading and image optimization as the primary levers for keeping an image-heavy marketplace fast
Outcome
Kick Fund Bite shipped as a mobile-first marketplace frontend supporting artist and product discovery.
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