A sweet little e-commerce platform connecting local UK beekeepers with honey-loving customers.
🚧 MVP Notice: This project is currently in its Minimum Viable Product stage.
🔒 Note: This README doesn’t include in-depth code examples intentionally.
Since this project is intended for production, I thought it’s best practice to avoid exposing implementation details publicly at this stage.
🌐 Live Demo: https://musical-marzipan-4eeb94.netlify.app/
MVP.project-showcase.mp4
Because it’s not real until you’ve got a UI...
HoneyHive is a full-stack e-commerce app for premium, locally sourced honey.
Built for UK users, it includes things like real-time product reservations (so no one steals your honey mid-checkout), UK-specific shipping checks, and a clean, multi-step checkout.
- Frontend: React, TypeScript
- Backend: Spring Boot (Java), MySQL
- Testing: Playwright (E2E), JUnit (backend)
- DevOps: GitLab CI/CD
- Deployment: Docker (backend)
- 🔐 User login, signup, and sessions
- 🐝 Product reservation to prevent honey theft (you know who you are)
- 💳 Multi-step checkout with payment integration (stripe coming soon...)
- 📦 Inventory + order management
- 📮 Shipping validation (UK only — sorry, rest of the world!)
- Designed and built the full-stack architecture
- Wrote both the pretty frontend and the serious backend
- Automated tests
- Set up GitLab CI/CD
- Basically... wore every hat 🧢🐝
This project is part tech demo, part business experiment. It’s fast, tested, and built to scale.
A real-world e-commerce setup with room to grow — and maybe even launch.