DIY CIY

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Inspiration

While architects and building companies often are able to quickly call up contractors or pull reference files to get quick estimates for jobs, DIY renovators are often left out of the picture. Several websites do offer their own independent calculators, but no website seems to allow customization to a great extent, and it’s a hassle to use several calculators. To add on to this issue, many DIY renovators are in the process of renovations as they want to flip houses – when walking through a house, trudging through several websites and resources just to make a quick estimate on whether it’s possible to flip a house is just too time consuming.

What it does

With DIY CIY, we seek to create a program that will help Do-It-Yourself home renovators create an estimate for how much their project will cost, and to be able to compare projected renovated values to similar nearby properties. This program aims to be intuitive, comprehensive, and quick to use.

How I built it

We used Java and a compiler to build this program.

Challenges I ran into

Because of our limited knowledge concerning applets and such, we could not make this into a website or application for mobiles.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We are proud of creating a calculator that would actually help us, as some members of our group are very genuinely interested in home renovations.

What I learned

I learned that in order for an program like this to materialize into a commercial world, we must learn how to make it into an app for mobile and a website.

What's next for DIY CIY

We would want to make a website and application for mobiles so that it is easily accessible for everyone, and make it not only runnable through a java compiler.

Built With

• java