GoFindMe

A website and an app that will allow a user to search for a specific item and returns all the stores (in a user selected radius) that have the item, how crowded the store is, and is GPS to the store.

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Inspiration:

  • Shopping during COVID-19 for all items; Especially useful for the In-Demand items
  • Bring all retailers together in one app
  • Search directory to look for items

What it does:

  • Stores product information and availability from the web or manual input to a large database
  • Filters search by location, area radius, delivery/pickup options
  • Filter results by price from low to high, price from high to low, distance from user's location

How I built it:

  • The website is built using html, javascript and css

Challenges I ran into:

  • We ran into a lot of challenges while coding the web crawler. We were trying to program a simple web crawler just to scan one webpage and collect specific data. Using Java, we downloaded the Jsoup library and then we tried to code to connect the url. We ran into many problems but the problems were not in the code, the issue was the library. Eclipse was telling us that the functions could not be called because it could not locate the library. With time running out, we decided to map out how the website would potentially look after the web crawler had retrieved the data from the websites.
  • We also had several problems while coding the website because our team is mostly composed of beginner programmers and it was a challenge to code a large project in one day.
  • The greatest challenge was trying not to fall asleep during the entire 24 hours. We almost lost half of our team because they almost succumbed to falling asleep an hour before the deadline before recording the presentation (that would have been tragic).

Accomplishments that I'm proud of:

  • We're all proud of the website format design that we made that map out how the system works on the slideshow

What I learned:

  • We learned a lot about html and designing a website
  • We also learned a lot about problem solving and creativity while trying to solve the issues we were faced while making a web scraper program

What's next for GoFindMe

  • We will continue to try to fix the code for the web crawler
  • We will continue to expand on the ideas

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