Inspiration
As advent travelers, students on a budget, and busy adults. We share the same experience when searching for tickets. Long draining process of comparing ticket prices as we attempt to weigh the pros and cons of certain flights. "Perhaps this flight is cheaper because it isn't requesting a carry-on but when I add in a carry-on the price significantly surpasses the others!" In the end we trust less the site and may actually miss one crucial point and end up wasting money.
What it does
Transparency is here! uFly is a chrome extension browser that takes in the users requested fees to be visible and uFly displays them all in a total price.
How we built it
Chrome extension Developer mode using html + css + javascript
Challenges we ran into
Since it is our first hackathon, we came across the challenges of learning new languages and process to creating an extension. Then searching for an API to find the hidden fee information.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud to have a rough MVP of the product and a prototype of the future implementation of the extension.
What we learned
We learned how to build extensions and web development languages
What's next for uFly
Add in all fees to uFly, along with make it mobile friendly. We want to create a data scrapper and connect APIs and a text notification when there is a significant price drop.
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