FindIt

Inspiration

• We hate dealing with people, so we deal with Alexa instead

What it does

• Look for an item in the store by asking Alexa to FindIt

How we built it

• built a Lambda function that hooks up to the DynamoDB with node

Challenges we ran into

• Alexa being too sensitive
• Perfecting utterances training dataset

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Keeping the UX as simple and fluent as possible

What we learned

• Building a skill for Alexa
• Setting up AWS Lambda functions
• Setting up AWS DynamoDB
• Working with speech intents
• Dealing with Echo

What's next for Findit

• Adding in data analytics
• UI to update and display store map/route realtime
• QR code to sync to customer's device so they can keep a log

Built With

• amazon-alexa
• amazon-dynamodb
• javascript
• node.js