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jifter

🎁 Gift suggestion Alexa skill for Amazon Intern Global Hackathon 2018. Took 3rd place!

Note: This repo is missing its final commit and some other details (like the questions), so it's not in a working state at the moment :'(

Submission summary: Jifter (pronounced with a J) is an Alexa app to help you find the perfect gift. By asking you a few quick questions to narrow down your options, Jifter will look through its database of (currently) 500 products--books, movies, and various gifts--and find the top gifts for you.

Features

Jifter is a Gift Suggestion Alexa skill. After asking you 8 yes/no/maybe questions and a price range, the app narrows down some potential gift ideas.

Questions

Each question has tag weights, narrowing down the gifts jifter may suggest. These are all stored in MongoDB.

Sources

  • UncommonGoods: gifts and crafts store
  • IMDB: Movie recommendations
  • GoodReads: Book recommendations

Extension

Currently, it returns the top product, but eventually, it could return a scrollable list of gifts. Additionally, we could use Twilio or emailing to email direct links to every product, or even have it purchase products on Amazon for you as well.

Structure

  • [api] Backend API (Python Flask)
  • [alexa] Alexa API (also Python Flask)
  • [crawler] web scraper
  • [web] unused web front-end