Instore Tracker

Inspiration

• The shortage of essential commodities and panic across communities inspired us to build a solution to track inventory status in real time based on stores within a geo location. o Panic in people caused by toilet paper shortage • Also, you can add your local favorite business or restaurant to help support the community

What it does

• Shows inventory status of essential commodities in real time of nearby geolocation. • Allows users/people to update the availability status of groceries in real time while shopping. • Reliable than web store inventory systems • Shows visually the inventory status • Add name and address or weblink of your local favorite business or restaurant

How we built it

• Hacked it using google forms and data studio - POC

Challenges we ran into

• This is a POC, we want to integrate into proper geolocation software to track local stores • Marketing to communities

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Built this in few hours using simple technologies • Idea generated lot of views across a single community released to

What we learned

• Need a better UI for data entry as well as reporting • Need to be more localized

What's next for Instore Tracker

• Integration with geolocation software to get local stores • Integration with store inventory data besides social fed data from people • Updates to UI • Enable notifications (Email; SMS) to people on items they are tracking on availability