Kurb

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  Greyed out buttons

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  kurb control panel

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  kurb control panel 2

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  kurb webpage

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  kurb intervention (impulse purchase detected)

INSPIRATION: We came up with the idea of kurb after seeing a amazon documentary that talked and showed how amazon uses psychological tricks to manipulate you into making impulse purchases, we thought this was bad and set out to fix this

WHAT IT DOES: Kerb acts as a middle man between amazon and the user. When the user tries to press buy now, kurb will send the user’s search history to google gemini via the api and then gemini will decide iif this is in impulse buy based on the definitions and rules we gave it.

HOW WE BUILT IT: We build kurb using chrome.history api, gemini api, and node.js for our server. We used lots of javascript and html for the coding and had to do lots of debugging too since this was pretty much our first time.

CHALLENGES: We faced a lot of issues trying to get the API’s to work, they were pretty hard to understand at first but we got the hang of it after a few youtube tutorials.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS: We actually finished making the product in time! (albeit we did have to submit it slightly late due to internet issues). We also are proud that we learned so much during this hackathon and we all now want to do more!

WHAT WE LEARNED: We learned a lot about backend coding, before this we didn’t know too much about backend besides how to use servers a little, now we are almost experts! We know how to use api’s, send data, use servers, etc.

WHAT'S NEXT: We don’t really know that much, but we are thinking of turning Kurb into a android application since lots of people use amazon on that instead of chrome.

Built With

• chrome.history
• css3
• gemini
• google
• html5
• javascript
• node.js