Inspiration
It's very difficult these days to purchase products while trying to be environmentally friendly. Almost every decision you make can have detrimental impacts on the environment. We were inspired by an episode of The Good Place where they talk about the impacts that our everyday decisions have.
What it does
Ecify allows you to scan barcodes of products in grocery stores to get an "EcoScore" about how environmentally friendly it is. It all crowdsourced data based on surveys given in-app.
How we built it
We built an Android app with Java, and a back-end with Java SpringBoot and MySQL.
Challenges we ran into
Learning mySQL and trying to figure out how to use the API.
We ran into an issue with the Wi-Fi network not letting use the API, so we had to quickly pivot into a computer-based app so we would have a demo.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Figuring out mySQL.
What we learned
How to make databases and APIS.
What's next for Ecify
A cleaner earth.
Built With
- intellij-idea
- java
- mysql
- springboot
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