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Sakhi #CravingToCradle<br />

In an article published by Times of India, it was<br />

stated that women shop 2.2 times more than men.<br />

With out them for the hackathon being e-<br />

commerce for women, the first thing we did was<br />

to go through the flipkart's website and look for<br />

issues that we could solve problems that<br />

concerned women. We observed that though<br />

flipkart had a women's section, they didn't cater<br />

the needs of an expecting mother and that's how<br />

our journey of the hackathon started!<br />

Our proposal was targeted to all those women in<br />

their maternity stages who hardly find any time to<br />

shop offline. Moreover, when a new generation is<br />

being nurtured during nine months of pregnancy,<br />

more prenatal care is required. We wanted to use<br />

Flipkart as a platform to cater their every small<br />

and big needs all throughout their journey.We<br />

created an add-on "Sakhi" to the flipkart's<br />

website.<br />

Sakhi is an online recommendation system that<br />

that creates a personalised store for expecting<br />

mothers by suggesting products across a wide<br />

range of categories like apparels, books, music,<br />

nutrition and cosmetics which can be tailored and<br />

offered at their doorstep. During the user's first<br />

login, Sakhi takes all the information like the<br />

height, waist size, bust size and the month of<br />

pregnancy to keep a track of the user and<br />

customizes her store. This also helps<br />

recommending products at later point of time.<br />

We built a machine learning model for the<br />

recommendation system using collaborative<br />

filtering. For the product data, we scraped various<br />

websites like firstcry and myntra and the entire<br />

website was built and integrated using python<br />

flask framework.<br />

The entire hackathon journey was a great joyful<br />

and learning experience. We were exposed to<br />

many new things as we were building everything<br />

from the scratch. The real joy was then, when our<br />

idea bagged 2 nd prize at the end of the Hackathon.<br />

Team: TNinjas<br />

Shravani Vadlamudi,IV Yr ,CSE<br />

Aakanksha Shastri,IV Yr ,CSE<br />

Mohana Priya K,IV Yr ,ECE<br />

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“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” - Mark<br />

Twain<br />

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