NSBE Hackathon, University of Toronto · Feb 2019
Four-Tips
Four-Tips
Making life simpler for people with Type 4 hair. Supporting Black heritage, Black hair and Black culture.
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- Role
- Presenter, product manager & back-end engineer
- Stack
- HTML, Express.js, Node.js, Google Cloud image classification
- Result
- 1st place, Best Black Hack
Details
At NSBE's second annual hackathon, a team of three set out to answer one question: how might we build a platform that helps people with Type 4 hair? After 48 sleepless hours we placed first as Best Black Hack.
The solution
- A web app where users upload a photo; our API runs it through Google Cloud object classification against our training data and returns product recommendations and healthy habits to follow.
- I owned the presentation, product management and the back end; teammates led front-end development and product research and design.