Conscious Consumer

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  Example of a "good" score.

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  Example of a "medium" score.

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  Example of a "bad" score.

Inspiration

We admired the convenience Honey provides for finding coupon codes. We wanted to apply the same concept except towards making more sustainable purchases online.

What it does

Recommends sustainable and local business alternatives when shopping online.

How we built it

Front-end was built with React.js and Bootstrap. The back-end was built with Python, Flask and CockroachDB.

Challenges we ran into

Difficulties setting up the environment across the team, especially with cross-platform development in the back-end. Extracting the current URL from a webpage was also challenging.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Creating a working product! Successful end-to-end data pipeline.

What we learned

We learned how to implement a Chrome Extension. Also learned how to deploy to Heroku, and set up/use a database in CockroachDB.

What's next for Conscious Consumer

First, it's important to expand to make it easier to add local businesses. We want to continue improving the relational algorithm that takes an item on a website, and relates it to a similar local business in the user's area. Finally, we want to replace the ESG rating scraping with a corporate account with rating agencies so we can query ESG data easier.

Built With

• bootstrap
• chrome
• cockroachdb
• flask
• git
• github
• python
• react.js