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Kiffix - Your Personal Music Workspace

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KIFFIX is a solution that simplifies your journey in the music industry. It's a tool to access everything you need in one convenient package, bringing together various essential capabilities. KIFFIX empowers artists, labels, PR agencies and music professionals with fully-integrated cutting-edge tools and analytics, designed to streamline your creative and business processes.

KIFFIX decided to engage Byteminds team for defining, developing, testing and launching KIFFIX Portal - the new version of the existing web-based software which is currently in use by KIFFIX customers and in essence is the core KIFFIX product.
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TASK DESCRIPTION

The development tasks included:
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- To make the product to be less dependent from Next Cloud platform;
- To have ability to develop the product on its own codebase;
- To have ability to introduce GA4 and other possible analytics into the product.

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How we worked together

Dedicated team

Byteminds provided the following specialists for the product development:

● Technical team lead
● 2 Senior frontend developers
● Quality Assurance specialist
● Project Manager


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development

Work during the development phase was organized in 2-week sprints.

At the end of each sprint the Project Manager from Byteminds provided updates to KIFFIX, where applicable the team made demos for KIFFIX.


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Technologies

Backend: Nextcloud, PHP
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Frontend: Next.js
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QA: Jira, Browserstack




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stages of work
Definition stage (2 weeks)

During this phase the dedicated project team gathered all the needed information about the project as well as APIs which are in use and which are going to be used in the Generally Available Product.

Development stage (10 weeks)

This phase starts after the definition phase and consists of the following parts:

Portal frontend

- Dashboard
- Header
- Footer
- Navigation

The updated KIFFIX portal frontend is implemented using the Next.JS v14 framework. Its feature is static-site generation to reduce hosting costs.

    stages of work
    Login and authentication

    KIFFIX used Auth0 as an SSO provider. The updated portal frontend integrated with Auth0 to implement authentication based on JWT tokens. Obtained JWT token is stored securely in a session according to Next.JS best practices.

    Also, there was a requirement to customize the REST API of NextCloud server to implement the token exchange mechanism. Because multiple third-party applications are connected to a shared SSO instance of Auth0, a single sign-out feature was implemented.

    User profile management

    The next iteration of the user profile management interface is implemented in the updated KIFFIX portal frontend. Now the user is able to manage a profile picture, full name, email, location, organization, headline, and biography. Profile data is stored in a dedicated database where the unique identifier is an ID from Auth0 SSO.

    Additionally, user is able to edit the following fields:

    - Preferred KIFFIX Biolink
    -  Website
    - Instagram
    - Facebook
    - X / (Renamed from Twitter)
    - Spotify
    - Beatport
    - “Headline” to include prompt text “”e.g. DJ / Producer / Singer”

    Clicking on any of these, given the user has provided a working URL navigates to the page in a new window.

      stages of work
      Files and folders management

      The functionality currently provided by NextCloud web client is implemented in the new Next.JS portal as:

      - List files and folders with the ability to navigate between folders
      - Image files (.jpg and .png) have a thumbnail preview
      - Audio files (mp3, wav) support a player in the browser
      - Video files (mp4) support a player in the browser
      - Statistics (size, date of last modification, sharing options)
      -  Upload files, create directories
      - Delete, copy, move files and directories
      - Download ZIP of the selected directory

      Other applications

      All other external applications - Biolinks, Shortlinks, QRCodes, Smartlinks, Send - are fully integrated as iframes similar to the current NextCloud portal.

      QA and UAT stages (4 weeks)

      During those phases both Byteminds and KIFFIX teams tested the developed product, found and documented any bugs found and then the Byteminds team fixed it.

        Result and benefits of the product

        As a result, we created a truly cool, unique and useful product for musicians. No need to create and pay for dozens of accounts with different sets of tools. KIFFIX combines all the necessary functions for creative musical work - a convenient file system, personal pages where you can conveniently store samples in audio or video format, cover pictures of future albums, links to social networks, QR code generation and much more. And all this with the ability to share a direct link to all the necessary content in one place!

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