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Instaleon provides visitors some basic tools to experience Instagram on desktop. By providing some interesting and innovative user interface, users get to enjoy a whole new different experience of Instagram right on their desktop.

In addition, Instaleon also provides some analytic tools for subscribers to keep track of any Instagram users change in followers and other metrics that could be important for them to understand how to maximize and utilize Instagram either for leisure or for their business.

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Why Drupal was chosen: 

I hope this is a good showcase of how Drupal could be used to build a great platform that make uses of available APIs and provides users with tools that could be useful to them. With Drupal, I was able to easily change any contents stored in blocks displayed to our users, manage users and have a registration product that users can purchase through Drupal commerce. With Drupal, updating and changing the website is just a breeze for us. As this project is still in the baby stage, it will be continuously improved with more various form of payment methods as well as more utilities with the API provided by Instagram. I have considered other frameworks like Wordpress and Symfony but Drupal just makes more sense with the strong capabilities in handling users which is the core needed aspect of this website.

Describe the project (goals, requirements and outcome): 

The project goal is to allow Instagram users to have a better platform to view Instagram when they have an access to a computer. In addition, Instaleon also hopes to provide a different way for Instagram users to enjoy the platform by following users and see how they are doing statistically on Instagram. This statistics following could be enjoyed like a game and it is interesting to see how one post could affect a user's follower statistics. Instaleon could also become a platform to provide more and different ways to discover awesome photos on their desktop.

Technical specifications

Key modules/theme/distribution used: 
Commerce Core
Subscription
Bootstrap
Login Destination
Rules
LoginToboggan
Why these modules/theme/distribution were chosen: 

Drupal Commerce and Subscription to manage subscriptions.
Bootstrap to reduce amount of css coding required. They have great user interface designs and it is really convenient.
Login destination to enhance user experience after login.
Rules for all the awesome capabilities that reduce the need of coding.
LoginToboggan to better manage all our users as well.

Sectors: 
Media
Social Networking