Inspiration

We were inspired with the challenge of increasing Umrah visitors to 30 million a year. This is a huge growth from the current 7 million a year.

What it does

We are your one stop shop for your Umrah booking. We provide you the lowest air fare to do Umrah from your Country by examining all possible paths of travel to Madina or Jeddah in different combinations to get you the best offering

We are a platform that starts with a website however mobile application and chat bot are in our business plan

How we built it

  • Web application built using PHP.
  • Implemented different python scripts to do the following:
    • Post search request to air flight service providers
    • Save Results to json file
    • Parser for json file round trip to get the cheapest price and trip information
    • Parser for json file one way to get the cheapest price and trip information

Challenges we ran into

Ideation phase Searching for an api that give air flight information and learning how to connect to Parsing and understanding flight json data

Accomplishments that we're proud of

we managed to integrate with travel aggregator and get real data of flights we managed to research how to get real value to Umrah visitors we managed to create a wonderful animation video to describe our solution in less than 6 hours

What we learned

Team Building Travel Providers integration Business Modeling Product Positioning

What's next for O-031-Go Umrah

Mobile Application Chat Bot Hotel booking with a different way of presentation to show cost of transportation from Haram to hotels Train booking Car Rental

Existing Code for the hackathon

  • high level design theme that is used
  • online travel aggregator api (however the development of our connection to this aggregator and the research of which aggregator to be used was done in the hackathon)

what has been created during the hackathon

Integration with travel aggregator to get data of certain flights from to certain path Parsing data and identification of the lowest cost flight per path Complete Responsive website UI/HTML design Display of air tickets in the site Display hotels of Madina and of Mecca

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