Trender

☁️ Inspiration

We wanted to make a website that gathers fashion trends and displays them to the user, depending on their gender identity. For example, if the user identifies as a male, the site will display men's fashion trends.

🚧 What it does

The website first gives links that the user can click, separated by gender identity. Once the link is clicked, the user is sent to a page filled with a list of clothes, with a link to the item's Amazon page. The items are initially blurred until the user signs up with Coil, a web monetization app.

👨🏾‍💻 How we built it

The website was built with Python and HTML/CSS, using Flask and Bootstrap as frameworks.
Collaborative programming was done via replit, which saved us time and allowed us to help each other out.

🏆 Best Web Monetization Project

We used coil to monetize our work, which basically is blurred before the user do some transaction using coil extension. After the user pays the website would be unblurred and then the user can find themselves some good fashion trends.

👷 Challenges we ran into

We had to ditch our initial idea of displaying selected clothes on a 3D model in AR, which cost us some development time.
We also had to adjust our payment plan after learning more about Coil. We also weren't able to figure out in time how to unmask elements based on monetization.

🎉 Accomplishments that we're proud of

Creating our website in less than a day, after brainstorming and trying to develop our initial 3D AR idea cost us time.

📙 What we learned

We learned how to code a website using Python and Flask, and learned how to use Bootstrap to simplify our CSS styling process. We also learned about emerging technologies like web monetization.

🔜 What's next for Trender

Next will be to add pages for the rest of the gender identities, and actually make it so our website displays the hottest fashion trends. (for now, there is only a page for the men, and the clothes displayed are placeholders, for demo purposes) The monetization will also be fixed so that people subscribed to Coil can actually view the fashion items.