TallWaifu

Overview

Tall Waifu is a SFW creator site, built as a commissioned freelance project. It gathers the creator's YouTube uploads and Twitch streams in one catalogue, with a commission page, a blog and support links. The site embeds media from YouTube and Twitch rather than hosting any itself.

The problem

An ASMR content creator wanted to extend her reach and needed a site to do it.

What I did

• Built a Next.js (App Router) site in a pnpm monorepo, split into a web app, a sync worker and shared config, database, sources and UI packages.
• Wrote a sync worker that pulls YouTube uploads every 15 minutes and Twitch VODs and clips every half hour, storing them in Postgres when a database is configured.
• Made the database optional. On Vercel the site runs without one and reads YouTube through Next's data cache, and every page works in both modes.
• Built the watch page (every YouTube upload, 15 per page), a live page with Twitch clips, and the blog.
• Added a commission page with pricing and a loyalty card. Commission payments go through the creator's Patreon links only, with no checkout on the site.
• Added privacy policy and commission terms pages, social links in the header and footer, and verification of Twitch EventSub signatures.
• Covered the logic with Vitest unit tests and Playwright end-to-end tests.

Stack

• TypeScript (strict), Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind CSS 4
• Postgres with Drizzle ORM (optional), run locally with Docker Compose
• Node.js 22 worker using node-cron
• Zod, Vitest, Playwright, ESLint
• pnpm workspaces, deployed on Vercel

Outcome / impact

• The site is live at tallwaifu.com, with commits through 28 Oct 2026 (22 commits in the repo).
• The creator loved it and said it was perfect. It needed little to no direction because I worked from her existing branding.

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