I am new to webflow and website design. I am trying to figure out if Webflow will be the right solution for all my needs or if I will need to integrate other things to complete the vision. I am looking to design a website very similar to uncrate.com. While I feel confident that Webflow can handle the content aspect of the website (please let me know otherwise) , I am not so sure if Webflow will allow me to create the options for my users to be able to create their own collections and add items to specific collections. This is a feature similar to Pinterest or Product Hunt. Can you let me know if this is possible? Thanks for all the help and advice in advance!
While Webflow provides robust collection management capabilities for site administrators, user-generated collections (similar to Pinterest) aren’t currently supported as a core feature. However, you can still create dynamic collection experiences by:
Using collection lists to showcase products and content
Implementing filtering and sorting options to help users find specific items
Creating category pages with custom filtering
Setting up pagination for better content organization
Using dynamic filtering based on user interactions
For a more interactive experience, you might consider integrating third-party tools or creating a custom solution using Webflow’s API and Memberships feature.
Hopefully this helps! If you still need assistance, please reply here so somebody from the community can help.
If you are referring to your website users creating private collections for their own reference, you could achieve that with Memberstack. It has the ability to store and retrieve user-specific data. But it would take a fair bit of programming to build the UI’s for adding/removing items and displaying your custom collections.
Another approach for private collections is to build everything using custom programming with localStorage, but it’s then tied to the computer the user uses.
In both cases, these wouldn’t be public collections though, that would require a different approach.