YouCam API, InsForge and Cursor: Next.js try-on tutorial

This tutorial builds a React and Next.js fashion photo editing SaaS with Cursor as the coding assistant. YouCam API handles image processing, while InsForge supplies authentication, a database, storage and deployment. The demonstrated setup uses external API and cloud services; running the development app on localhost does not establish local model inference.

The walkthrough starts with project creation and shadcn/ui setup. The presenter generates a landing page mockup in ChatGPT, then asks Cursor to implement it with reusable components. Email/password and Google sign-in lead into a dashboard and separate editing studios.

The practical integration covers makeup transfer, eye color changes and virtual clothing try-on. Later sections demonstrate hair and beard edits, photo colorization and headshot generation. Generation requests use polling, and the app saves results to InsForge storage with database records and credit transactions. The presenter also fixes missing makeup parameters and a database constraint error rather than treating generated code as complete on the first attempt.

The final sections add a paginated project gallery, Stripe sandbox subscriptions and cloud deployment. Stripe checkout requires price IDs despite the initial prompt requesting raw amounts. At the end, the presenter notes that the dashboard's recent-project list still needs wiring to saved results.

The recording promotes credit offers and signup links. Those offers do not establish permanently free API usage, hosting or coding-agent access. Self-hosting InsForge is not demonstrated in this build.