Inspiration
We wanted to make it fun looking for houses on Airbnb, so we built Air Guesser so the user can simultaneously play an interactive game while also seeking their next vacation home
What it does
It pulls up at max five stationary images, you get prompted to guess where the house may be, with states, countries, and cites. If you guess correctly you will get points.
How we built it
We scraped some data off of Airbnb using a scraper to pull off data for use, we then put the data through javascript and send it off to HTML to update the webpage for when you press a button.
Challenges we ran into
WE had a lot of trouble using the data we scraped off of Airbnb, we originally wanted to get all the images from the listing, but figured it would waste a lot of the precious time we to construct the application. So we just decided to go with the first five or less on the listing. Another challenge we encountered was with the IDE we originally used. It didn't work as intended and broke our bottle functions in python, making our website useless. We then swapped over to a repl.it and everything fixed itself on its own.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Everything functions as we wanted it to. However, we had different plans and could not do them due to time constraints. We are proud of the bottle working as intended now and also the HTML and CSS since it was our first time using CSS during the hackathon. Overall we are proud of the code's functioning.
What we learned
We learned that, even if something may seem easy to think of, it is not as easy to construct in coding. It is also important to consider what you may need to use before you start on the project, you may make things harder for yourself in the long run.
What's next for Air Guesser
One of our original plans was to use a map like Geoguessr, which would take a lot of effort and searching for an API that could do it. We would have also liked to have been able to access the rest of the pictures that the site had to offer.
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