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Full-stack build · e-commerce · trust infrastructure
A production-grade platform that solves a real, dangerous problem: counterfeit skincare. Every product is checked against its physical importer invoice and batch record before it ships — backed by a 2× money-back guarantee. CodeVix Labs designed and engineered the whole system, end to end.
The mandate
Counterfeit, expired and smuggled products flood the market — some laced with mercury or steroids. The brief wasn't “build a shop.” It was to build trust as infrastructure: a marketplace where authenticity is proven on every single product, not promised in a banner.
The build · verification pipeline
Stock is refused unless it arrives with an authorised-distributor invoice — matched on HS code, batch and importer registration.
Warehouse team photographs every carton and inspects seals, holograms and print quality against the brand record.
Formulas cross-checked against a product-checker of BSTI manufacturers, standards and banned substances.
Every unit's batch/expiry recorded and made verifiable — surfaced to the buyer and emitted as structured data.
By the numbers
The platform
System architecture
Dependencies flow one way. Money and stock writes are transaction-guarded; policy (delivery, advance, availability) lives in single sources of truth so the storefront and back-office can never disagree.
Engineering rigor
Security is designed in, not bolted on: least-privilege access control on every privileged action, server-side input validation, protected back-office surfaces, and hardened authentication and checkout flows.
Money and stock move inside database transactions with row locks and floors; checkout rules are recomputed server-side; post-commit side-effects run via after() so they never block or get dropped.
ISR edge-caching, content-addressed immutable image caching, a Redis stock layer, and active cost tuning across Vercel and Neon.
Rich JSON-LD (Product, FAQ, Organization), a 134-post bilingual content engine, brand landing pages, dynamic sitemaps, and an llms.txt so AI answer engines can cite the platform accurately.
The takeaway
CodeVix Labs took TheSkinProof from concept to a comprehensive, production-grade marketplace — verification pipeline, payments, fraud, logistics, three back-office portals and a bilingual content engine — all in one coherent, maintainable system.