Comparo

An app that makes online shopping a step easier to navigate

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Inspiration
Going into an e-commerce website and spending hours upon hours comparing multiple different products, their prices, specifications etc... is an arduous cycle of hesitation and deliberation which we are all too familiar with. With Comparo say goodbye to this hassle forever! Comparo allows you to select multiple items from every different e-commerce site, be it Amazon, Flipkart or any other and provides you with a simple UI where you can compare all the different items in 1 place. As students, we may not be able to make an impact on a large enough scale but we hoped to make the road easier for others including the individuals starting an online business or businesses looking for the item's price on their competitor's site. And that is what Comparo aims to do.

What it does
As you open the app, you will see the option to choose the e-commerce website you want to pick an item from. Simply input the link to the item and you now have the item, its price and all listed specifications in front of you to give the user a general idea/template, repeat this for all the items you need and enjoy your convenience e-shopping experience.

How we built it
To begin, we created a Figma prototype of how the UI would look and then began coding the app with web scraping libraries. The website is scraped for important details such as prices and specifications which are then listed on the website. We used- ReactJS, TailwindCSS, NodeJS, MongoDB, ExpressJS Since we split up the jobs between people, the front-end and back-end are on two different repositories for now. UI - https://github.com/Mr-Emerald-Wolf/comparo-ui
Backend - https://github.com/Abu-Lut/Comparo

Challenges we ran into
We had a problem creating an API from scratch and integrating it into the project's front-end.

Accomplishments we are proud of
We are glad that we not only created a solution to the general population's everyday concerns but also worked on a platform that might assist those who are new to developing their own e-shops and are experiencing difficulties with pricing and decision-making.

What's next for Comparo

  • Mobile version of the application
  • Providing suggestions and varieties available based on the searches

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