Akasha
AI-native e-commerce with a Gemini assistant that knows your
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Akasha - AI-native e-commerce with a Gemini assistant that knows your

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Akasha is a production-ready e-commerce platform built with Next.js 14, NestJS, and PostgreSQL — powered by a Gemini AI shopping assistant that understands your entire catalog through semantic search and a real-time knowledge graph. Unlike generic templates, every Akasha store is a fully customized, single-tenant deployment on Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, CDN, WAF, load balancer). You own the code, you customize freely.

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I built Akasha because most e-commerce platforms lock you into SaaS subscriptions or generic templates. I wanted a platform where each store is truly unique, the client owns the code, and AI is a first-class citizen — not a bolted-on chatbot. Akasha uses Gemini AI with a real-time knowledge graph to actually understand your catalog and recommend accurately. Built with Next.js 14, NestJS, PostgreSQL, and deployed on Google Cloud Platform with enterprise infrastructure. Every store is single-tenant, fully customized, and the client gets full code ownership. No shared infrastructure. No template clones.

The Gemini assistant actually understood weird long-tail queries from my catalog, which surprised me for an out-of-the-box setup. Liking that each store gets its own deployment instead of sharing some tenant soup.

Maker

 Sorry, but I just noticed that my Google AI Studio credits (tokens) have run out; I’m going to make a payment so you can test our chat again. The response turned out really well—I created an exceptional RAG architecture. The project I published uses a multi-tenant and multi-frontend model approach within a monorepo. However, I won't be enabling subscriptions in the system just yet, as I still need to finalize details regarding security and scalability. Currently, I am working on a full implementation for a client—who has access to the source code for any desired modifications—at a higher price point, although I do plan to adopt a SaaS model in the future as well. Thank you very much for the feedback.

Owning the code is a big deal, so it'd be great to see a built-in visual editor or admin UI for non-developers to make quick content changes without touching the codebase.

Maker

 Thank you very much for the feedback. I will post images of the admin panel; all site information can be modified. Although it is not possible to edit the frontend directly for now, users can switch the color palette between light and dark modes.

You own the code and get single-tenant deployment on Cloud Run, that part alone is a huge win compared to template shops. The Gemini-powered semantic search actually seems to understand my weird product queries surprisingly well.

Love that it's single-tenant and you own the code, that's a big differentiator. One thing that would make this even more practical for me would be built-in support for headless CMS integrations like Sanity or Contentful out of the box, so non-developer team members could actually manage landing pages and blog content without needing a deploy every time.