BlobMania
Personal projectSolo — frontend, backend, and data pipeline
- Next.js
- JavaScript
- Web scraping
A full-stack comic database and reader, with a custom scraper feeding the catalog since no public API existed for the source data.
BlobMania is a comic discovery and reading site built entirely in Next.js — frontend and API routes in one codebase, deployed on Vercel. Since there wasn't a public API for comic data, I built a separate scraper (bato-to) that pulls listings and chapter data from bato.to and feeds the site's catalog. One tradeoff worth noting in the README: because the source data comes from user uploads, entries can occasionally be duplicated or mistagged upstream.