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Product description
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Inspiration
Wanting to go shopping at Orchard Road but too lazy to do so.
What it does
Our application “Gai Gai” (meaning to shop in Hokkien), enables users to enjoy the window shopping experience with a simple swipe of their phone screens. It is common knowledge that e-commerce is already well-established globally. However, e-commerce sites have not quite provided consumers with an intuitive online window shopping experience, where they can casually browse through a large range of items. Instead, consumers will have to manually input a particular product or category on a specific site before scrolling through dozens of similar items. The purpose of this app is to greatly simplify this experience by presenting users with a single product at a time. The user can then swipe left to reject or swipe right to place this item into a wish list.
How we built it
We first built a scraper to scraper major shopping sites. This was done using Python and Beautifulsoup4. The middleware was created using a express.js and sequelize..js. Afterwards, we created an iOS app using Swift and an android app using Android Studio.
Challenges we ran into
Android studio crashing, scrapers not working, overall lack of experience causing us to be stuck in the nitty gritty bits.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Mustering through the night to make vastly different components work.
What we learned
We learned that we should have prepared beforehand.
What's next for Gai Gai
The world.
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