AllGen

Inspiration

** The inspiration came from a friend who is allergic to gluten, so every time he does groceries, he looks for ingredients to make sure that is not have any products that contain allergens, which takes him a lot of time to do online groceries. **

What it does

** The Chrome extension acts as an allergen guard that acts on top of websites like ShopRight, Uber Eats, etc. This shows an alert if it contains any allergens selected by the user and brings attention to the user if it has an alternative name of the same allergen. **

How we built it

** The built contains both frontend and backend, we use AI to help us build this, like Claude and Gemini. Frontend scrapes ingredients from the webpage and processes them directly, also it sends an API call to make a cross-verify all the ingredients. And if it finds some allergens, it sends a working log.

Challenges we ran into

** The main issue we ran into was working with CORS(Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) as it was not allowing us to host our services directly on the online grocery website, so we need to overcome this by creating our own service worker for Chrome. And Second one is that we cannot deploy the extension as it takes a week for it to get approved **

Accomplishments that we're proud of

** We are really proud of what we built, as it can help many people save time and be aware of the life-threatening situation from allergies. **

What we learned

** We learn a lot about collaboration and technology for future projects. **

What's next for AllGen

** We will continue working on it to improve the UI/UX, to have our users' satisfaction and easy to use interface **

Built With

• fastapi
• javascript
• python