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The homepage. Search for stores easily or see the full map.
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Store's result page. Get notifications when the store isn't full, contact with it or get instruction on how to reach it.
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Travel around your local neighborhood, city or the opposite side of world to find a not-crowded grocery store. I really wanted a beer man.
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The grocery's store admin page. Update the database, inform the public and manage customer flow with scientific methods and models.
Inspiration
Well, I had to drink some beer.
I thought about a going to my neighbourhood's grocery store. And ha. A huge line of people waiting to get inside. I waited around 30 seconds and bye. Then an idea came to my mind:
" What if I knew before leaving my house if my local grocery store was crowed by people waiting or it was a good time to go buy beer?".
Wrapped my head around this and voilà. I created napao. ( which literally in Greek means "Shoud I go ?". And it captures the struggle perfectly. )
What it does
People can search for the grocery store they plan to visit and real-time check if the place is crowded by customers or it haves few people shopping in.
It has a map containing all the grocery stores around, helping you decide the least crowded ones.
Helps the grocery stores manage the crowd levels in their business, inform the public and get a load of statistics about public inrush and customer behaviour.
Which results in... preventing people from being crowed for their basic needs ( shoo! shoo! covid-19 ) and save you a respectful amount of time each week!
How I built it
The current web platform was created with the help of web-development technologies (React, Mapbox, Material-UI ... and others !). And as simplistic as possible.
Challenges I ran into
Finding the way to real-time update the database with people in-rush & out-rush, so it can benefit both public and businesses.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Actually trying to create something that may help tackle a world-problem. Which means the whole process was rewarding for me.
But I'm a little bit more proud because I overcame the fear of some of the technologies I used and:
- I managed to visualize all spots to a global map.
- I created an eye-candy admin page.
- I solved a real problem with the power of technology.
What I learned
- I learned,found and practised a whole load of libraries and tools that will give high potential to my sophistication as a developer.
- I learned about human ability to communicate and co-operate in the midst of tough times.
- How professionalism and highly-disciplined events, can result in great results and inspire many people to change their lives and the world.
What's next for napao
- Assemble a sensor to store's doors that will automatically update the database.
- Use real-time prediction models, like ARIMA methods, to provide pro-active information to stores.
- Connect a real database to it and of course deploy it !
- And of course, scale it up for other kinds of stores.
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