CartKeep | Devpost

Inspiration

After realizing 60% of the food produced in Canada is tossed away - our team got to work on fixing this problem from the lens of making it easy, attractive and convenient as much as possible to keep a track of soon-expiring food.

What it does

After logging in, the user scans the barcode of their product, from which we pull up the name and quantity of the product, and ask them to input the expiry date. After this product has been added to the user's expiring cart - when it comes close to expiring (in three days specifically), it sends the user a text message reminder.

Additionally, another component of our product is the humidity detector, which detects if the food has gone bad through evaluating the environment near the food, built at an extremely cheap price for sustainability and profitability.

How we built it

We build our website using AI for Barcode Detection, Machine learning to evaluate the quality of produce food, and the website made through node.js, javascript, html, react and figma.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Being able to run our product with our conceptual technologies drafted two days ago now working seamlessly on our website.

What we learned

As a team of people who didn't know each other before this hackathon, we learned how to value each other's strengths and help leverage them in the right context. In the technical sense, we learned to think bigger by being able to find databases that help us take this technology to the next level.

What's next for Keep Cart

We plan for Keep Cart to be even less frictionless in the future so people do not have to think before scanning their items to keep reminders (it becomes second nature to them). We hope to do this by: bringing Keep Cart to phones, for food banks to be connected to our product and lastly for an ambitious vision - for people to simply scan their barcodes and have their reminders set.