Herd

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  Herd Logo

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  Hi-Fi Edition

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  Hi-Fi Edition v2

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  Design Process Flow

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  Herd - Design Manual

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  Code snippet for the confirmation E-mail Send

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  Code snippet for populating the dropdown on the orders page + helps identify the product page / costco URL

Inspiration

Costco is a wholesale company that sells bulk items at a discounted rate. Primarily, Costco targets businesses or families that quickly go through large amounts of food. However, this is not oriented towards single individuals, who ultimately could still benefit from the lower prices of bulk buying. Herd aims to allow single individuals to partake in the cheaper prices of wholesale, without having to commit to massive amounts of food that mostly end up going to waste anyways. Herd allows users to bid on products sold in bulk, so that it can be split into different portions based on how much the users want.

What it solves

Students benefit hugely from the benefits of the cheaper wholesale prices. With Herd, we've created a solution that allows college students to partake in a 'Herd', where each participant is buying a part of a wholesale item. Whether that is a massive package of 20x beef patties, or something entirely different, these products can be split up into bite-sized chunks for the students, based on their needs and wishes.

On average, over a single year, one would save $1,000 USD a year from buying all your grocery needs at Costco, instead of other options (source: https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/how-much-can-i-save-shopping-at-costco/). That amount of money is a lot, especially for a student.

The problem that it solves is twofold. For one, in many cases when bulk purchasing happens for individuals alone, much of the excess food exceed the expiry date, or there is just too much to go around for the short-term, eventually leading to users not getting their moneys worth and food waste.

Challenges we faced

We wanted to create a simple solution that would require the least amount of actions from the users side to partake in the 'Herd'. In order to do this, we thought of different solutions that could be the best approach, switching between web application and app, but ultimately settled on a Chrome Extension. This fit the perfect margin for simplicity, usability, and convenience.

We have probably all heard about Honey, a Chrome Extension that allows users to save money on most websites that utilize discount or promotion codes.

Proud Accomplishments

We managed to create a fully functioning MVP that is simple for users to understand and interact with. With this, we

Next Steps

We would love to implement more features that makes the student journey of our app even simpler. For one, we would like for users to be able to choose a pick-up spot and accessibility slot.

Built With

• css
• fastapi
• flask
• google
• html
• javascript
• postgresql
• python
• sql