How-to · Creator profile
Your public creator profile is the link-in-bio storefront where published photo sets are listed: studio.apiway.ai/<your-username>. This guide covers avatar, display name, username, bio, Instagram and TikTok, explains publish and unpublish behavior, and shows how Apiway preserves old profile links when the username changes.
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From the sidebar, open Creators. The Profile tab is the default view. The form has two cards: Public profile (avatar, name, username, bio, Instagram, TikTok) and Your marketplace listings (storefront preview where you reorder published photo sets). Everything in this guide lives in the top card.
Click Change photo, pick an image from disk (PNG, JPEG, WebP, or HEIC are all accepted). Apiway opens a crop modal so you can position and zoom the avatar inside a square frame — the public profile renders avatars as a circle so the corners get clipped automatically. Confirm the crop and the upload runs in the background. The placeholder "No photo" disappears once it lands.
The Name field is what renders as the H1 title on your public storefront — up to 80 characters. If you don't have a brand name yet, the Surprise me button generates a random one and you can keep tapping until something fits. The display name does NOT have to match your username; it's the human-readable headline, the username is the URL slug.
The Username field becomes the slug in your public URL: studio.apiway.ai/<username>. Rules enforced by the input: 3–30 characters, lowercase letters / digits / underscore only — uppercase auto-converts to lowercase, special characters get stripped as you type. A leading '@' is also stripped automatically. Reserved words can't be used (admin, api, app, auth, cabinet, contact, creators, explore, gallery, login, public, www and a few more); the API rejects them on save.
Up to 2000 characters. Two sentences is enough — describe the fashion shoots you publish (urban streetwear, soft-light editorial, plus-size lifestyle, etc.) and the visual tone buyers should expect. The bio appears below the avatar and its first 160 characters are used for the profile meta description, so make the opening specific and concrete.
Both fields accept either a handle (with or without @) or a full profile URL — up to 120 characters each. They render as social buttons on your public profile. Add only accounts you control and keep the handles current so buyers can verify the public identity you choose to share.
Until you click Publish, the profile is private — you cannot be found in Explore search and the storefront preview is hidden. Since 2026-05-07 the marketplace publish flow no longer blocks on this: when you publish your first listing, Apiway auto-publishes a minimal storefront on your behalf so the listing has a public home immediately. Clicking Publish here just lets you control nickname, avatar and bio up front instead of letting the system generate them. Once published, the page goes live at studio.apiway.ai/<username>, your already-uploaded photo sets switch to active on the storefront, and you appear in Explore search. The button text flips to Unpublish profile so you can flip it back if needed.
The View profile button (top-right of the Public profile card) opens your public storefront in a new tab. Eyeball it: avatar circle, display name, bio, social buttons, listings grid. If something looks off (wrong avatar crop, typo in bio), come back to the Profile tab and edit — every field saves automatically 700ms after you stop typing, plus a final flush if you close the tab mid-edit.
Below the profile card, the Your marketplace listings section is the storefront preview. Drag the grip handle on any unpinned card to reorder — the new order saves in the background. Pin a card to lock it to the top of the public storefront (good for showcasing your strongest set or a current promotion); unpinning drops it back into the drag-reorder pool.
When your first listing goes live, Apiway can auto-publish a minimal storefront with an allocated nickname, generated display name, and empty bio so the listing has a public home. The listing is not blocked, but completing the profile gives visitors useful identity and context.
3 to 30 characters, lowercase letters (a–z), digits (0–9), and underscore only — pattern /^[a-z0-9_]{3,30}$/. The input strips uppercase and special characters as you type, and a leading '@' is removed automatically. Reserved words can't be used: admin, api, app, auth, cabinet, contact, creators, explore, g, gallery, login, new_password, public, robots.txt, sitemap.xml, www. The API rejects reserved values on save with an error.
Yes — change it in the Username field; the change saves automatically. Apiway records a redirect from the old nickname to the new one, including nickname-based storefront paths. Still update Instagram bios, portfolios, and campaign links so visitors see and share the current URL.
Display name is the H1 title on your public profile (up to 80 characters, any characters allowed, can include spaces, capitals, emojis if you want). Username is the URL slug (lowercase letters / digits / underscore, 3–30 chars). They're independent — your display name can be 'Sofia Reyes Studio' while your username is 'sofiareyes'. Buyers see the display name; the URL bar shows the username.
Click Change photo on the Profile tab, pick a new image, re-crop in the modal, confirm. The new avatar replaces the old one within a couple of seconds and propagates to your public profile and every storefront listing card. Any image format the platform supports works (PNG, JPEG, WebP, HEIC). There's no separate 'banner' or 'cover' photo — the avatar is the single profile image.
No. Unpublishing removes the public page and takes all your marketplace photo sets off sale, but nothing is deleted. Earnings history is preserved, your photo sets stay in your account in their existing state, and re-publishing the profile puts everything back on sale immediately at the same URLs. The standard pattern: unpublish during an extended break or while you're refreshing your portfolio, re-publish when you're ready to take pickups again.
Profile field edits autosave 700ms after you stop typing (you'll see a brief 'Saving…' / 'Saved' indicator near the Save button). There's also a Save button for explicit confirmation, and a tab-close safety net using fetch keepalive so the last keystrokes don't get lost if you close the tab mid-edit. The Publish / Unpublish toggle is its own action — those are explicit clicks, not autosave.
The first 160 characters of the bio feed the meta description on the public profile page. A concrete opening helps search services and visitors understand the storefront. Explore discovery also uses profile and listing data, but no wording guarantees ranking or indexation.
