RealReviews

Inspiration

Most of us online shop on Amazon at least once a week and are fed up with reading reviews that sound fake before buying a product, so we decided to create this extension. It is both for a personal use and to share with anyone interested.

What it does

Using this extension on an Amazon page collects all the reviews, analyzes them with our fine tuned model and give a grade on the level of trust for the page as well as a new (real) rating that does not take into account the reviews judged fake.

How we built it

Originally, the project was to make a chrome extension that uses GPT-0 API to analyze the reviews but we decided to make our own NLP by fine tuning DistilBERT. The UI was very important to us as well.

Challenges we ran into

Overall building each piece of the project was pretty straightforward but bringing them all together was the real challenge (linking the model and the backend in Javascript was probably the biggest one).

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The commitment to the project from the whole team (lot of sleep was lost) as well as the end result which is fully functional.

What we learned

Huge improvement on Javascript skills thanks to the hours of debugging as well as an intuition on fine tuning a pre trained natural language processing model.