Relief Resources

Helps those who have been through natural disasters catalog/calculate insurance costs and find supplies on Ebay.

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Inspiration

We realized that many people in Texas have home issues due to the recent winter storms. This project is meant to aid those people by making it quicker and easier for them to recover after storms.

What it does

Allows users to catalog costs for repairing and replacing items damaged during natural disasters (such as extreme cold for the region), and lets users search for necessities and replacements for their damaged items on Ebay.

How we built it

The backend of this project uses Flask, a web framework for Python. The front end of this project uses HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

Challenges we ran into

A major challenge that we ran into in the backend was trying to make it possible for users to search Ebay for items. Because we were handling the Ebay API as a python script, it was not possible for us to do this without implementing a database, which we were eventually unable to do.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that we have a site up and running, and that it is built on languages and tools that we have not had much exposure to. Learning more in-depth how Flask and Javascript work together was a huge accomplishment for us.

What we learned

We learned lots of Javascript and Flask, and how they could be combined to easily pass data between each other and generate HTML elements using Jinja.

What's next for ResourceFinder

Our next steps will be to fully implement the search feature in our Ebay search page, and to automatically recommend Ebay listings to users based on the items they list in the insurance calculator.

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