Inspiration - I was trying to find a practical way of using the paccurate API to somehow help consumers. A few ideas I had were room space prioritization and furniture visualization but those seemed out of scope and sort of impractical. Then I remembered one of the amazon packages I had just recently received which was very empty and wondered if you could be more environmentally friendly and reduce demand by shipping more items at once in bulk.
What it does - Assuming you've shopped on a site like Amazon and added are heading to the checkout page you are first sent to this page. The app displays your package as well as additional related items that may fit into your package. This encourages the user to add all their items to 1 shipment reducing material cost and labor. In order to do all this, it sends your items to the paccurate API which gives the optimal pack as well as utilized space which can be used to filter a catalog of items.
How I built it- The app is currently unfinished but I used HTML css and javascript to develop the app and intended to use Github pages.
Challenges I ran into - Time and a lack of understanding in regards to how to use HTML, CSS, and javascript, as I had never coded in any of these languages. Furthermore, I had extreme difficulty in figuring out how to use the paccurate API
Accomplishments that I'm proud of- The webpage looks nice and all of the components are there to finish the program as I am already making calls to the API and the webpage is already done. I would just need to finish connecting the info gained from the API to the webpage
What I learned - A base understanding of 3 new languages more of how APIs worked as well.
What's next for freespace- just getting it finished which will take just like 2 more hrs
video link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12a6v2E3VK0GDc8cPivri1fnvI03n_fbw/view?usp=sharing
Built With
- bootstrap
- fetchapi
- paccurateapi
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