Inspiration
Covid has cause a spike in our social media account of friends promoting a new side business to make extra cash. However we notice that Instagram is not an open platform and any marketing done inside the app is limited - small business with no budget for ads and resource will have limited exposure.
What it does
Create a page for vendors that can be crawled by Instagram that allows them to be searchable.
How I built it
We crawl instagram post only for their text, collect relevant information to generate a vendor page that can be searched both from within the website and popular SEO
Challenges we ran into
Trying to have a headless webcrawler running on a serverless instance
What's next for Akucari.co.id
UI updates, Maschine Learning on crawled content and a PRO version to allow vendor to have more control
KNOWN ISSUE
Profile crawling is sporadic - we built it using serverless, which does not do well with selenium. Profile submitted may not appear in searches.
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