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The homepage of the site showing a grid of users with the prices they have set
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A user submitting more information
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The cart page of a person purchasing data
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A user's page showing what data they are selling for the price they set
Inspiration
Facebook makes billions of dollars per year selling our personal data, and we never see any of that. We believe that users are entitled to a share of the money generated from our valuable data
What it does
Datrify.io is a marketplace for your data. You provide the data you wish and you set the price. When your data is sold you will receive 50% of the revenue. Data can be provided through a form, or you can install a Chrome extension that harvests your browsing history in realtime.
How we built it
Datrify.io is built using the Laravel Framework and Chrome Extensions
Challenges we ran into
Initially we wanted the Chrome Extension to automatically connect to the user's account on the website. However, we experienced some issues with the messaging APIs. For demonstration purposes, we hardcoded an API token into the extension
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- The professional-looking appearance of the website, despite the quick development time.
What we learned
- We went from knowing nothing about chrome extensions to creating our own
- We learnt more about backend development
What's next for datrify.io
Due to possible legal issues we're unlikely to be rolling this out beyond a proof-of-concept.
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