I just open-sourced a small project that I have been working on in the last month for learning web3 and how to write contracts in Solidity. I hope it is useful for someone starting an NFT based project... The tech-stack includes NextJS, TailwindCSS, and HardHat with Solidity for writing contracts:
https://github.com/kevinfaveri/snes-punks

The website for minting SNES Punks is available here:
https://snespunks.com