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Inspiration

Organization is essential - we decided to create a clean and light-weight solution to increasing productivity in every day life. We are constantly using many different search engines and directories to find specific items such as a place you want to frequent, a book you want to read or a product you want to purchase.

What it does

LIO uses available api's from the most used and most populated databases of information such as google-places or amazon product advertisement api. It allows the user to have a personal profile where they are able to search these databases for anything they could normally search on google maps or on amazon, save it in a visually appealing list and add tags for easy reference. We wanted to offer a simple, unified solution to searching and offer benefits over favouriting or bookmarking information. We make it our goal to offer a polished product that the user is able to use,enjoys using and feels efficient using.

How I built it

The team built the web application using vaadin, a framework derived from GWT. The application relies on an Apache Tomcat server to run. The declarative UI was created in HTML and SCSS and back end logic written in Java.

Challenges I ran into

Constant merge-conflicts with Git. Occasional Apache protocol and port forwarding errors caused compilation time errors. Lack of documentation for Amazon and Google APIS made implementation difficult.