Inspiration
Do you encounter a situation where you have an item that you really really desire, and you go to the website, navigate to that product, and then… ops, you find that product is out of stock. So you keep checking the website from time to time. That happens to me often time. So I really wish I could have a tool that reminds me when the product is back in stock. That is why we decide to develop Stockify - a web application that checks the availability of products automatically.
What it does
Users will receive notifications once their targets product are back in stock. It will save people a large amount of time on tedious, repetitive manual work on clicking on the website. All you need to do is just input an URL of the product and then Stockify will check the stock for you on a frequent time basis. If you have more than one product on your wish list? Don’t worry. Stockify allows you to send several requests for different products on different websites at the same time. You can also create a list of products you wish to check their stock for, and make adding or delete any time.
How we built it & Challenges we ran into
We initially run the server on Node.js which is a lot harder than flask which we use afterwords. The website building cost us most of the hours. Due to our unfamiliarity with html5, we spent a lot of time determining the error in our webpage. Struggling on simple issues like GET and POST functionality. In the end, we have completed a website that we did our best to create.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Check the availability of products
- Receive notification in no time
- Multiple products monitoring possible
- Easy to manage a list of products
- Labor and time saving
What we learned
Python automation, Javascript, HTML ( GET and POST)
What's next for Stockify
Enable checking stock for more websites (we only use two websites for now) Enable vague search for products’ names Price comparison with multiple websites Set up stock checking automatically at a certain frequency.
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