#Inspiration
Sometimes, people break things. But it's often expensive and inconvenient to track down or hire a professional. What if you could find someone right in your college dorm who knows how to fix your broken stuff? Or if you could make a quick buck fixing things for other people? What it does
Make or Break allows you to be a maker or a breaker, or both. It matches people who have broken stuff and nearby people who just might know how to fix them. Just post a request and set a price. Based on your text and photos, Make or Break will tag your problem and try to pair you with the right handyman. As a maker, the app will help you find relevant jobs for you within the correct geographic region. How we built it
On the front end, we built mobile apps for iOS and Android.
On the back end, we wrote a RESTful API in Flask. Sign-in is handled by unique usernames. The user may define areas of expertise and maximum range within which they are willing to accept jobs. All user data is stored in a SQL database. After they have registered, they may submit jobs.
When submitting a job request, the user may send a text description, a photo, and a price. Clarifai and a Python implementation of the Rapid Automatic Keyword Extraction (RAKE) algorithm are used to generate tags for the job. The user may revise these at any time. Images are stored on Amazon S3.
When looking for jobs to accept, the user browses through a list filtered by distance calculated by the haversine formula and by tag matching. When the user accepts a job, a chat instance is opened between maker and breaker through SimpleChat and Firebase. When a job is completed, we use the Capital One Nessie API to simulate a bank transfer between the two parties according to the agreed-upon price. Challenges we ran into
we initially intended to use the Twilio IP Messaging service for our chat, but we had issues with the SDK and with accounts being banned for suspicious activity
conflicting python distributions and environments
converting between base64 and urls for Clarifai and Amazon S3
building a native Android app for the first time
#Built With
ios
swift
android
java
flask
python
capital-one
clarifai
natural-language-processing
firebase
sqlalchemy
amazon-web-services
#Links