Papyr-Us

Being ardent book readers, it pains to see old books accumulating dust in a corner. Worse yet is when your parents decide to "recycle" it. This idea revolves around promoting/building a strong community of readers by making accessibility to books easier - lending and borrowing. Looking for a book? All you need to do is search if the books on your wishlist are available on our website and simply connect with the lender. Its all point-to-point with no intermediary partners which means making new friends as well! Looking to donate/lend books? Simply register with us and we'll connect you with people.

The whole application is available as a web-app. Connect with other readers and exchange books with each other.

Features

Sign-up for new users
Login for existing users
Search for books to borrow
One-click add to lend books to library
Book description
Twitter chatter about the book/author
Connect with owner of book with one-click to schedule pickup/drop

Tech Stack

Design : Adobe XD
Database : MongoDB Atlas
Back-End : Python Flask
APIs : Twitter API, Google Books API
Front-End : HTML, CSS, JQuery

Built With

adobe-xd
css
google-books-api
html
javascript
jquery
mongodb
python
twitter

Submitted to

HackCU VI

Created by

I predominantly worked on the back-end using Python Flask. I also worked with the Google Books API and Twitter API. I also played a pivotal role in integrating the working modules together using Jinja and JQuery. In addition to that, I also got an opportunity to work on the front-end design of the book display page of the web application using HTML and CSS.

Swarnalatha Natarajan
I worked on the front-end primarily this time. My previous hackathon gave me a chance to brush-up my backend skills. This hacakathon however, I wanted to go out of my comfort zone to work with front-end. Iw orked with Adobe XD for the first time, and as a team we felt more organized as we had a clear picture of what the front-end should be. I also worked on landing page, login and dashboard.

Aditi Prakash
I worked on setting up and integrating MongoDB Atlas on GCP which was definitely scary because I was quite sure I was going to do something that meant my credit card being charged :D however, it was a great learning experience because prior to this I did not have any experience working with MongoDB Atlas or GCP. I also worked on the front end (sign-up page and the Twitter Feed) using Flask backend and html/css frontend with some Javascript scripting. I am also creating a domain name on domain.com to host our website on it (here's hoping it works!).

Keerthika Rajvel

Updates

Swarnalatha Natarajan started this project — Feb 23, 2020 12:41 PM EST

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