B2B Fabric Platform

HerMin Textile sells fabric to buyers who traditionally had to be in the room to judge it. Their platform — a fabric catalogue, trend boards, quotations and orders — had aged, and the team who built it was off the contract. I took it over and renewed the front end alone over four months, working with their backend engineer.

The part that mattered most was new. In a live room, two people see each other over WebRTC — peer connections through simple-peer, signalling over socket.io — with a text chat beside the video and a shared board where either side can push a fabric image the other sees straight away. Sessions can be recorded, and what a buyer picks can be exported as a PowerPoint deck or a PDF.

Keeping both sides in sync over WebSocket was the hard part: joins, leaves, a room that is already full, a peer that drops, and a board that has to show the same thing to two people at once. After that came audio and video — making a call look and sound right takes far more tuning than making it connect.