🧠 AI.Work – Your AI-Powered Pinterest Clone

AI.Work is a full-stack web application inspired by Pinterest, where users can register, log in, generate AI-powered images using the ClipDrop API, and manage their posts. Images are stored and served via Cloudinary for fast, reliable, and scalable delivery.

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🚀 Features

• 🔐 User Authentication (Register/Login/Logout with Passport.js)
• 📸 AI Image Generation using ClipDrop API
• ☁️ Image Upload & Storage via Cloudinary
• 🖼️ Pinterest-like Feed with user-generated posts
• 👤 Profile Management with profile image support
• 🧾 EJS Templating with responsive views
• 🌐 MongoDB Atlas for cloud database
• 💡 Post Editing & Deletion (with Cloudinary cleanup)

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📁 Tech Stack

💻 Frontend

• EJS (Embedded JavaScript templates)
• HTML, CSS, GSAP, SplitType

🛠️ Backend

• Node.js
• Express.js
• Passport.js for authentication
• MongoDB with Mongoose
• Multer + Cloudinary for file uploads

☁️ APIs & Tools

• ClipDrop API (Text-to-Image Generation)
• Cloudinary (Image hosting)
• MongoDB Atlas (Cloud DB)
• dotenv, UUID, Streamifier, Express-Session, and more

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🛠️ Setup Instructions

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/HarshitKumarSahu/aiwork.git
cd aiwork

2. Install Dependencies

npm install --legacy-peer-deps

3. Create a .env File

CLOUD_NAME=your_cloudinary_cloud_name
CLOUD_API_KEY=your_cloudinary_api_key
CLOUD_API_SECRET=your_cloudinary_api_secret
MONGO_URI=your_mongodb_atlas_connection_string
CLIPDROP_API_KEY=your_clipdrop_api_key
SESSION_SECRET=your_secret_session_key

4. Run the Project

npm start

The server runs at http://localhost:3000 by default.

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📦 Scripts

npm start        # Starts the Express server (entry: ./bin/www)

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🧪 Example Features

• 🌄 AI Image Generation: /generate
• 📤 Upload a Post: /upload
• 🧑‍💻 User Profile: /profile
• 🖼️ Image Feed: /feed

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🛡️ License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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👨‍💻 Author

Harshit Kumar Sahu
🔗 LinkedIn

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