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🐾 Expiry WatchDog

Smart expiry tracking for real-life impact. Save time, reduce waste, and shop smarter.

🧠 Inspiration

In day-to-day life, we often forget when essential products — like medicine, groceries, or cosmetics — are about to expire. This can lead to unnecessary waste or health hazards.

Expiry WatchDog was built to solve this — to simplify expiry tracking, send alerts, and recommend timely reorders that benefit both the user and the environment.

🚨 What It Does

Tracks and stores product expiry dates
Sends email alerts and notifications 🔔 before expiry
Offers a user-friendly dashboard
Built with scalability and AI-readiness in mind

🔮 Future Features:

🧠 AI-powered affiliate product recommendations
📦 Smart reordering links (Amazon, Flipkart, etc.)
📷 OCR/QR-based expiry date detection

🛠 How We Built It

Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Backend: Node.js, Express.js (Coming Soon)
Database: MySQL (Coming Soon)
Notifications: Nodemailer (Coming Soon)
Design: Fully responsive UI, accessible on all devices

Modular MVC architecture for future expandability.

🧩 Challenges We Ran Into

Creating a modern UI in limited time
Handling date logic for dynamic expiry tracking
Structuring backend for AI integration without cluttering the core system

🏆 Accomplishments We’re Proud Of

🟢 Developed a polished Frontend MVP
🎨 Built an engaging, informative, and responsive UI
🤝 Excellent team collaboration and time management
🧠 Designed backend structure ready for smart upgrades (Coming Soon)
🔁 Planned and partially implemented email notification logic (Coming Soon)

📚 What We Learned

Practical UI/UX design for a real-world use case
Collaborative development and GitHub version control
Feature planning under a hackathon deadline
Designing for scalability and future features

🚀 What’s Next for Expiry WatchDog

📸 OCR detection of expiry from images
📦 Barcode & QR scanning support
🤖 AI-powered reorder links with affiliate integration
🔔 Push & WhatsApp notifications
🌐 Multilingual support for wider reach
☁️ Cloud sync for cross-device user data
👤 User accounts and authentication
📊 Statistics dashboard for expiry trends

📦 Affiliate Vision

Whenever a product is about to expire or has expired:

Users will receive AI-powered product suggestions via affiliate links from Amazon, Flipkart, or other e-commerce platforms.

This creates:

Timely reordering for the user
Revenue opportunities for our platform

This is a win-win approach — helping users while funding the system.

🧑‍💻 Meet the Team

Name	Role
Ajinkya	Team Leader, Full Stack Developer, Video Editor
Yadnesh	Creative Head, Feature Suggestion Specialist, Bug Finder
Kartik	SEO Strategist, Quality Analyst