ShutterQuest
Full-stack photo gallery SaaS for professional photographers: Stripe billing, a robust OpenAPI REST API, client galleries, session management, and a direct-publish Lightroom plugin, all in one.
Overview
End-to-end SaaS platform designed for professional photographers. Built the Auth0-secured REST API, Stripe subscription lifecycle, multi-brand gallery system, and a Lightroom Classic publish plugin that turns catalog collections into live client galleries with a single click.
Details
Technical highlights
ShutterQuest is a multi-tenant gallery delivery platform targeting DSGVO-compliant hosting for German-speaking photographers. The backend exposes a versioned OpenAPI 3.0 REST API securing every route with Auth0 OAuth2, while Stripe handles subscription billing through a webhook-driven lifecycle.
- ASP.NET Core REST API with OpenAPI 3.0: Brands, Galleries, Media, Contacts, Photo Sessions, Subscriptions
- Multi-brand architecture: each photographer can run isolated brand identities with separate logos, watermarks, and legal texts
- Gallery modes (Presentation / Vote) with per-image flags (Yes / No / Maybe / LoveIt), annotations, and session-based client access
- Photo Session management: shoot planning, moodboard uploads, gear checklists, participant magic-link invites
- Adobe Lightroom Classic publish plugin (Lua / LR SDK 6+): OAuth2 browser login, collection-to-gallery mapping, sequential JPEG export at sRGB / 2048 px / 0.9 quality with automatic republish on edit
- Contentful CMS for blog pages and categorized FAQ entries (General, Account, Payment, Security, Gallery, Shootingmanagement)
- Async image-processing job queue with polling endpoint: upload returns a jobId, UI polls until Completed or Failed
- DSGVO-first: German server infrastructure, no AI training on customer photos
Key product decisions
- Publish service maps each Lightroom collection to exactly one gallery. A deliberate 1-to-1 constraint that keeps delivery intent explicit and avoids duplicate uploads
- Session tokens allow anonymous clients to interact with password-protected galleries without needing an account
- Moodboard endpoint supports both authenticated brand-owner flow and participant magic-link uploads in a single route
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