Dilli Labs LLC is among the winners at the Amazon Raise-up Buildathon – a Hackathon organized by Amazon Inc. The challenge was to create a solution to assist non-profits in fund-raising based on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Represented by the Hari brothers – Ashish and Piyush Hari – our entry – Magic Tree – was one of the 10 winners among 894 entries!
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Dilli Labs wins at DeveloperWeek 2019 Hackathon
Dilli Labs team competed with 150 other teams to be among winners at the DeveloperWeek 2019 hackathon held on February 24, 2019 in San Francisco.
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Physical Inventory Management via Google Assistant
Over the weekend, we had the opportunity to participate in a developer event organized by Intuit to devise a solution to help small businesses. We teamed up with Mr. Jeff Chen – a friend and a small business owner – and Ms. Puja M. Hari to make it easy for businesses to perform a physical inventory. We wrote an Action for Google Assistant named ‘Inventory Manager’ that helps update the quantity on hand for an item in Quickbooks via voice.
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Piyush Hari represented Dilli Labs LLC at the DeveloperWeek 2017 hackathon on Feb 11 and 12. He paired up with Dudi Shmueli who was looking for technical help around Android. He came up with a fabulous idea – to accept merchant reviews at the point-of-sale (PoS) ! Think of Amazon verified reviews but for in-person (not online) purchases.
Use Case : A customer completes the transaction on a Clover Point-of-Sale (PoS) device. After successful payment, he can leave a Star-Rating (1-5) of the business in his experience.
Motivation
The idea is motivated by the fact that current rating sites providing aggregated reviews of a business have inaccuracies. Competitors can leave negative reviews without doing business with merchant. Satisfied customers might not bother to log-in to these sites in order to leave a ‘good’ review whereas angry and dissatisfied customers would let it out in their ‘bad’ review.
Architecture
Clover – now owned by First Data – has PoS devices that is based on Android OS. Clover Android SDK allows one to deploy 3rd party apps to a Clover PoS device that can interject into payment flow of a core Clover order processing app to offer a ‘review’ feature. Broadcasts is a well-known mechanism in Android wherein an app can broadcast an event and other applications can listen to them by registering Broadcast Receivers.
The following video demonstrates the proof-of-concept we built :