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💡 Inspiration

Whenever I want to buy a console, they become out of stock within a few minutes. Because of this, I wanted to build an extension that will notify me when the stock has arrived. As we were building this we added more features like price tracking and searching for similar products.

💻 What it does

The extension has 4 main features:

• Notify when an item has been restocked.
• Notify when the price of the price has been reduced.
• Search for similar products which might be cheaper or better, without even needing to leave the site.
• Show the price history of a product on any amazon website.

⚙️ How we built it / How it works

We separated the application into two components, the extension and the server. The extension is what the user will be interacting with and the server will be responsible for checking for item restock or price reduction. The server will also compare prices and ratings to find the best-rated product and the lowest priced product.

👨‍💻 Tech stack

• Extension: HTML, CSS, and Javascript
• Server: Express.js
• Database: CockroachDB with sequelize orm
• Email client: Twilio SendGrid
• Collaboration: GitHub, VS Code live share.

🔨 Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenge we faced was to connect CockroachDB with Node.js. This might be because none of us had experience with using CockroachDB.

🏅 Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that we were able to work together to solve problems that were raised while building the project.

🧠 What we learned

We have learned using CockroachDB and Twilio SendGrid. Besides, we have also learned how to host a static website on GitHub with a domain from Domain.com

What's next for team Money

Our aim for this project is to help others save money, and we also have other plans to make everyone's life affordable in the future.

Built With

• cockroachdb
• css3
• express.js
• html5
• javascript
• node.js
• sequelize
• twilio