Inspiration
Makers of the world don't have marketplaces curated for them, lots of e-commerce is catered towards purchasing finished products. This Builders Marketplace flips the script and gives access to projects for those wanting to start from zero. Ideas, materials, and tools all under one catalogue.
What it does
A catalogue of handy projects that can be build with the listed tools and supplies. For example, itching to build your own wooden chair? That'll be 6 hours with the use of 12 materials. Not sure where to buy? Look no further, our shopping agent does the heavy lifting for you and consolidates all into a single cart. Already have some of the items required? Perfect, check it off and it gets knocked out of your cart, only buy what you're missing.
How we built it
Used Channel3 for agentic commerce Paypal Orders to process checkouts in a sandbox environment AG Grid for the layout of project resources Nextjs Frontend / Python Backend all hosted on Render Claude API for recommendations
Challenges we ran into
Payment checkout idempotentcy Render cold starts after 15 minutes
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Sourcing concrete purchase information from vendors for unique, handy projects through Agentic AI commerce
What we learned
Handling payments integration into a live product and architecting a functioning AI commerce application.
What's next for Builders Marketplace
Integrations for VR/AR to showcase building steps as a guide for users. More catalogue additions for projects.
Built With
- aggrid
- channel3
- claudeapi
- nextjs
- paypalordersv2
- python
- render
