ThreadHer: AI-Powered Fashion Sustainability Advisor

💡 Inspiration

I grew up without computer access. Today, I'm using AI to tackle fashion's environmental crisis. As a woman in tech who loves fashion, I recognized the gap between consumers wanting to be sustainable and having practical tools to do so. I built ThreadHer to empower women to make informed wardrobe choices while reducing fashion's 10% contribution to global carbon emissions (9.2*10^7 tons waste annually).

🛠️ How I Built It

AWS Serverless Stack: S3 (frontend + storage) → API Gateway → Lambda (Python) → Bedrock + Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Flow: Upload garment → Claude Vision analyzes → Returns CO2 (5-33 kg) + water (2,700-10,000 L) + personalized recommendations

💪 Challenges

  • Secure image pipeline with pre-signed S3 URLs
  • 15+ prompt iterations for consistent AI responses
  • Async coordination with 3-5s response time
  • Mastering Bedrock, Lambda, S3 simultaneously

📚 What I Learned

AWS serverless architecture, Claude Vision integration, prompt engineering. Impact modeling: with n users extending garment life by factor:

ΔW=n×36.7×(1−f1​) kg/year

Key insight: Technology empowers when it makes information actionable.

🎯 Impact

10,000 users at 25% lifespan extension = 73,400 kg waste reduction/year.

Next: Mobile app, wardrobe tracking, donation mapping.


From no computer to building AI for change. 🌿

Stack: Bedrock • Claude 3.5 • Lambda • S3 • API Gateway • Python • JavaScript

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