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Verdella Tea

Production e-commerce platform.

Planetary scan

Class: E-commerce platform
Discovered by: Varun Kothari
Role: Full Stack Developer
Period: 2025 — Present
Status: Live

A production e-commerce platform for a tea brand, built and operated end to end by one developer. Verdella handles real customers and real money — live Razorpay payments, automated Shiprocket shipping and tracking, authenticated accounts, product offers, and customer reviews — with deploys, monitoring, and database operations managed solo.

Surface features

Feature 01Razorpay payment gateway with live transactions

Feature 02Automated shipping & order tracking via Shiprocket

Feature 03Secure authentication with Better Auth

Feature 04API rate limiting and security with Arcjet

Feature 05Cart, product offers, and customer reviews

Hazard detected · the hard part

Being the only engineer on a system that takes payments — security, uptime, and safe schema changes had to be designed for up front, not patched in later.

Composition · stack

Next.js
Tailwind CSS
Shadcn UI
PostgreSQL
Railway
Razorpay
Shiprocket