CometClaim 💫

UTD's Lost and Found system needs a digital upgrade to improve convenience. Instead of relying on physical visits or phone calls, CometClaim is an online platform where students and staff can easily upload and browse a virtual inventory of lost items, retrieve misplaced belongings, and query a chatbot for any questions from the comfort of their home before making a trip to the Lost and Found office.

MVP 🛠️

• User account with user authentication
  • Administrator and student login
  • Item recovery history
• Register New Items (Found and Lost)
  • Add "Pending Verification," "Claimed," or "Available for Pickup" statuses for items.
• Fuzzy search to look for items
  • Item Categories and Filters
• Claim Process
  • Submit tickets to claim items
• Chatbot for answering any questions
  • If a person has claimed an item that is mine, what should I do?
  • What is the process for claiming an item?
• Alerts/Notification System
  • when new items matching their description are added to the inventory.
    
    

Tech Stack & Resources 💻

Comprehensive Full-Stack Tutorials

• AWS Project - Build a Full End-to-End Web App with 7 Services
• Build a React To-Do App | AWS Projects

Front-end

• World's Shortest Figma Course
• Official React Documentation / Setup
• React Tutorial for Beginners
• JS Mastery React JS Full Course 2023, 1 hour
• Official TailwindCSS Documentation / Setup
• Tailwind Tutorial for Beginners

Back-end

• Database
  • S3
    • Amazon/AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) Basics
    • Storing Images in S3 from Node Server
  • DynamoDB
    • AWS DynamoDB Tutorial For Beginners
• User Authentication
  • AWS Cognitio
    • Implement AWS Cognito login and registration (Sign In and Sign Up) in React JS
    • How to use AWS Cognito to build an Authentication / Login System
• API
  • Chatbot
    • AWS Lex
      • How to Make a Chatbot Using Amazon Lex and AWS Lambda
      • Amazon Lex: 8 Things You HAVE To Know
    • AWS Kendra
    • AWS Polly
      • Text to Speech with Amazon Polly
      • Building Intelligent Chatbots with Amazon Lex & Amazon Polly

Third-party Integrations / APIs

• Fuzzing Searching with fuse.js
• AI UI Generator for a template

Dev Tools/Software

• Git
• VS Code
• Node.js
• Postman

Milestones 📅

Week	Overall	Frontend Tasks	Backend Tasks
Week 1	Discuss who’s frontend/backend and the overall project/tech stack Set up communication, environments, and WhenToMeet Set up development environments for both front-end and back-end	Begin UI/UX design Set up development environments for front-end Look into React and Tailwind	Set up development environments for back-end Start looking into AWS tech stack
Week 2	Get familiar with tech stack Begin starting with basic deliverables Brainstorm schemas for the database (Both front-end and back-end should be in agreement before creating states/models)	Go over some UI design basics Flesh out the collective vision for the app Figma Design due by the end of week 2	Plan out database design schema Keep doing research with the tech stack and AWS
Week 3/4	Begin starting with basic deliverables	Finalize UI/UX design concepts (Finish by end of Week 3) Implement designs for Login/SignUp Pages, Upload/Claim Item pages, Search Page Implement user auth with AWS Cognito due by End of Week 3 Set up routing for pages and set up context components	Configure the AWS environment with Polly, Lex, Amplify, and S3/DynamoDB Set up S3 buckets for storing uploaded item photos Start developing AWS Lex and AWS Polly
Week 5/6		Implement designs for Claim page, Home Page, and chatbot page/modal	Integrate user and item database with the frontend Chatbot should be functional and reply to queries
Week 7/8	Backend and Frontend communicate to finish integration to connect and test Have the entire app working If possible work on stretch goals Begin working on the script	Polish up MVP features and help the backend if needed	Finish everything
Week 9	EVERYONE HANDS ON to DEPLOY our app with AWS Amplify
Week 10	NO MORE CODING unless for bug fixes Prepare for Presentation Night! Polish app and slides so they are ready to go

Stretch Goals 🚀

• Real-time call support for answering questions?
  • Connect me to a real person
  • Any other questions that the chatbot can use
• Anonymous Reporting
• Crowdsourcing
  • Allow students and staff to upload photos of lost items ANYWHERE on campus
• Map Integration
• Social Media Integration

Roadblocks and Possible Solutions 🚧 💡

• React Environment Setup
  • Pivot to other technologies such as Svelte or Nuxt
• Running to AWS Tech Stack Issues
  • If we are in the early stages, we would pivot to PERN/MERN (PostgreSQL, Express, React, Node)
• Issues with AWS Kendra and AWS Lex (or AWS Polly)
  • Pivot to different technologies offering voice generation and AI Chat such as LangChain
• Either the Frontend or Backend team falling behind.
  • If this happens the best course would be to get some assistance from the other side until caught up

Competition 🥊

• UTD PD Lost and Found Inquiry

• UTD SU Lost and Found

• Social Media apps like (Reddit, Instagram, X)

  
  

Git Cheatsheet 📓

Command	What it does
git init	Initalize a new Git repo
git clone "rep-url"	Clone a repo from a URL
git status	Show changes status
git add "file"	Add changes to staging, use "." for all
git commit -m "Descriptive Message"	Commit changes with a message
git push	Upload local repo content to a remote repo
git log	View commit history
git branch	Lists all the branches
git branch "branch-name"	Create a new branch
git checkout "branch-name"	Switch to a branch
git checkout -b "branch-name"	Combines the previous 2 commands
git merge "branch-name"	Merge changes from a branch
git branch -d "branch-name"	Delete a branch
git push origin "branch-name"	Push to branch
git pull origin "branch-name"	Pull updates from a specific branch
git pull	Fetch and merge changes
git fetch	Fetch changes without merging
git reset --hard HEAD	Discard changes
git revert	Revert changes in a commit

CometClaim TEAM!! 🎉

• Jason Luu - Project Manager
• Suraj Khosla - Industry Mentor