Hackathon Product : Stylo, Choose the Right Style
Yesterday (17 November 2014) me and my friend Muhar (https://twitter.com/depemu) participated in Startup Asia 2014 Hackathon by TechInAsia. The event actually held in my almamater campus Bina Nusantara University (www.binus.ac.id). I think the startup asia 2014 theme and the traffic in binus actually the same “I love traffic jam”. Okay lets move on to our idea.
Our main concept of idea basically is to choose what fashion brand celebrity wear and we can show every detail of the item that celebrity used. And also we can show the stylo of celebrity of user is fit or not. Last but not least we can buy item from Our E-commerce platform". We were participated in AWS Challenge (http://aws.amazon.com), PayPal Startup Blue Print (https://blueprint.paypal.com/), TackThis (http://tackthis.com.sg/) and MigMe (http:/mig.me).
Why we choose these idead ? Basically we are giving different experience in e-commerce. First our focus in not in the e-commerce but our focus in giving what is trending style, what is detail item that celebrity used (watch, bag, blazzer, tie, shoes, pants, shirt, etc) that fit and recommended to us and then after giving the information then user can buy the item from our e-commerce platform.
We build in 2 platform Web and Android and this our app look like :
For web you can see it in http://default-environment-avafq3du3k.elasticbeanstalk.com/medias/
and for the Mobile :
Pict 1. Welcome Screen. We are using facebook as a default login platform
Pict 2. Edit Profile. This is used for profiling later
Pict 3. Home. We can see the current trending photos from the celeberity
Pict 4. Detail Item. We can see detail item for every picture (but of course we are using dummy data)
Pict 5. Search. We can search our keyword combine with criteria that we suggested
Pict 6. Search Result. Search result based on our keyword criteria
Our stack technology used is :
For web we are using PHP, and for web styling muhar is build his own css platform and integrate it with jquery and javascript. For the data we are using Parse (http://parse.com) as a mbaas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Backend_as_a_service).
For the mobile we are build it in native java although intel is giving challenge us to use ther Intel XDK (https://software.intel.com/en-us/html5/tools) but for us building application using html is weird. We are agree that html are the future but for now because of the web engine used in every phone is different so we don’t take HTML5 for now as technology to build application just using that to build mobile web. For API i’m using Retrofit (square.github.io/retrofit/) as HTTP library and integrate it with OkHttp (http://square.github.io/okhttp/). Actually parse is have their own library but i think its not challenging and i need to build own model and pojo from the api. For the styling we are using AppCompat as Default theme and adopt material design to implement in our apps. Our Source code is available in https://github.com/linggom/stylo for the mobile and web
Unfortunately we are not pass to the next level for this hackathon. I know it will failed because we are not fully integrated and understand the challenge from some sponsor, our basic concept is not strong enought and our bad english. But once again it is the fun, challenging moment to participate in Startup Asia Hackathon 2014. See you in the next event.