rack!t

Choose your outfit online from many retailers, try the clothes in-person, take what you love home and leave the rest!

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Inspiration

For shoppers like me, sometimes I have a very specific item or style in mind that I’m looking for and I would like to get it as quickly as possible without having to walk though the entire mall. One of my biggest struggles shopping in person is that I can’t compare items from different shops or mix and match items to create the perfect outfit.

What it does

Rack It let’s you choose a mix of items across hundreds of shops and prepares these items for you to try on at the mall. You’ll only pay and take home the pieces that you love. The mix of technologies allowed people to try out clothings in the fastest, most efficient way.

  1. Shop for your Rack

Browse through RackIt and find unique pieces from hundreds of shops at our mall. Put these items on your rack, share your method of payment, and set up a day for your visit.

  1. Try on your unique pieces

Come find us at the Fitting Centre on the day of your scheduled visit. We’ve set aside your unique pieces in a garment box that you can unlock with your personal QR code.

  1. Take the pieces you love and leave the rest

Scan the pieces you love at our Check Out Booth to remove the RackIt security tags. We’ll automatically charge you directly and you can leave the rest with us.

How we built it

RackIt has two components. An online platform for browsing and hardware security measure for the business transaction.

The online platform uses Vue.js as the frontend framework.

The hardware comprises of a Raspberry Pi and RFiD tag and sensor, as well as a servo.

Challenges we ran into

The team spent many hours on the ideation phase, and we ideated thinking about the end-to-end real-world business solutions that could be implemented with today's technology.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Feedback and validation for the idea was extremely positive. We are also proud of our ability to leverage the diverse skillsets of each member and build a solution within a short amount of time.

What we learned

We learned how to work with hardware, and create business ideas.

What's next for rack!t

To bring malls and retailers on board and integrate their inventory system into our online platform.

The homepage features styles based on occasions and styles that people commonly attend. For example, "new job, new me" "stylish professional", "sassy and sexy", "romantic date night", "beach babe", "cool and athletic", "oops, I stole all boyfriend's clothes".

These hand-picked outfits are outfits can be from sponsor stores.

Weekly contests for specific styles where people can handpick outfits and vote on them.

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