ProductLens

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  Product Finder

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  Product Comparison

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  DashBoard

Inspiration

I've personally suffered monetary loss due to my bad choices in smartphones in recent years . This led me to build this project to help others choose their products wisely .

What it does

ProductLens helps user choose their products wisely by providing accurate AI powered information from web and also helps them compare to another product .

How we built it

This project leverages Perplexity Sonar AI in the backend to provide up to date information on products from web . I used React+Vite & ShadcnUI for Frontend and FastAPI framework for the backend .

Challenges we ran into

For the most part handling the data the app recieved from the API , Sonar api is different from other AI API in many ways , especially it's search results from web . At first I tried showing the thumbnail using the api too but i failed to collect image urls from the api .

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I made a working app from an idea that i would consider an accomplishment .

What we learned

How to handle search data from Sonar API

What's next for ProductLens

• Add thumbnail functionality
• Add Ethical Product search functionality
• Add product purchase links functionality
• Add sponsored product functionality(similar to google search) to monetise the app (maybe).
• Add a database to store user history (maybe to use targeted ads etc)

Built With

• fastapi
• perplexityapi
• python
• react
• shadcn
• typescript
• vite