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Project Name: Book Thrift

Short Description Welcome to Book Thrift — a simple, friendly web app that helps people buy, sell, or donate books near them. It uses your browser's location to show nearby listings, supports photo uploads for condition images, and converts coordinates into readable addresses so everything is easy to find.

The Problem

Waste and deforestation
Limited access to affordable books

Key Features

Quickly list books to sell, give away, or trade.
See books that are physically close to you using geolocation.
Upload photos (including camera capture on supported devices) to show book condition.
Addresses are human-friendly thanks to reverse geocoding.

Built With

Backend: FastAPI + async SQLAlchemy
Database: PostgreSQL
Frontend: Plain HTML, Tailwind CSS, and vanilla JavaScript

Create and activate a virtual environment:
- macOS / Linux: bash python -m venv venv source venv/bin/activate

Windows (PowerShell): powershell python -m venv venv .\venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

Install dependencies: bash pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

Create a .env file in the project root.
Add your database URL and a secret key, for example: properties DATABASE_URL=postgresql+asyncpg://postgres:password@localhost/bookthrift_db SECRET_KEY=supersecretkey

Replace postgres:password and supersecretkey with values that match your environment.

Run the app