This week, I setup the website that will live on the physical hardware as well the website we host. Originally, we had planned to have only one website which we hosted, but decided to go a different route. The reason for this was because if we hosted everything, we would’ve needed some form of authentication so we would have had to stored user information which goes against our security policies. So I had to come up with a new approach. I came up with using 2 websites instead: 1 that lives on the hardware and another that we host. The one that lives on the hardware will be where people can set their VM configuration (VM ip address) and also look at the music they have saved, and the website we host will be strictly for setup instructions and for data privacy terms of service. This means that what we host is purely static and applies to every single user, while user configuration lies on the client side. This change means that I had to scrap almost all of the existing website code and restart. I spent a lot of time coming up with this 2 website approach and thinking about how I wanted to do it. For our hosted website, I am still using React and Next.js and hosting it on Vercel. For the client website, I decided to serve a simple HTML page on a Flask app. This is because on the client side, we have very limited resources, so I decided to go with a very lightweight approach. I have initial websites that work for both client side and our side. A lot of it is filled with filler content but this is fine as it will be quick to update the actual content since the overall layout is established.
Based on this, I think my progress is on schedule given the recent pivots we discussed in the team status report. Next week I want to work on filling out the actual content of our website, meaning setting up VM setup instructions, and want to setup a docker container for at least one open source model so we can get ahead with that. I also want to pick the exact open source models we want to use so we have a finalized list of those models.
Here are some pictures of the websites.
