PresentPicker is a hackathon project focused on finding meaningful gifts under a single total budget. Given gift keywords and a budget, it recommends product options that stay within the budget range while balancing value across multiple recipients.
The app accepts user-provided keywords and a budget threshold, computes weighted budget splits using median product pricing, and returns gift choices for each keyword. Selected items are then saved so users can revisit the results later using a unique URL.
Flask + Python backend with HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Bootstrap frontend and Firebase Realtime Database.
Third Overall Winner at Hacky Winterland 2, with emphasis on budget allocation logic and practical user workflow.
Product data collection/scraping reliability and integrating cloud storage early in development.