Inspiration
We're college students who do not have cars and study at a remotely located university. Sometimes we would see cool garage sales on Facebook with cool stuff but we can't get them because the owners can't deliver and we don't have the extra money to go THERE and BUY it and GET BACK on UBER (which is largely EXPENSIVE, looking at you Uber). Upon coming to MLH Prime Southwest, we learned about Postmates delivery platform and voila! Grale (Garage Sales!) was born.
What it does
Basic functionalities:
- Sellers could post their product listing
- Customers could see products
- If customers like something, they input their address
- We send the addresses of seller and customer to Postmates
- Postmates delivers
How we built it
We ran test on Postman and built our code for listing of items in Python. Currently no GUI, just good ol' terminal Craigslist
Challenges we ran into
We started by coding in Java. Java does not support Http requests properly so we switched to Python at midnight. And we had very LITTLE experience in Python
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We made it to work!
What we learned
How to include API in program AND Python coding
What's next for Grale - Garage Sale
Give it a GUI and include Stripe API for charging $$$
Log in or sign up for Devpost to join the conversation.