Reduce waiting queue at supermarket from Corona with Python-Webapp

[Orges Leka]

Barry Scott <barry at barrys-emacs.org> schrieb am Mo., 16. März 2020, 22:55:

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> On 16 Mar 2020, at 17:38, Orges Leka <orges.leka at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear Python developers,
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> I am a data scientist and use Python regularly. I have a question:
> How difficult is it to write a Python web-app, with the following basic
> functionality:
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> Am I right in thinking that you are wondering how to help people visit the
> super market
> in a quite time to help with the social distancing for COVID-19 reasons?
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Yes, that is the intention.


This is an interesting idea. I think if it was a app on Android or Apple it
> might be easier to get users, but harder to write.
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> Maybe exploiting something like https://www.ushahidi.com/ is an
> alternative?
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> Barry
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> The user writes anonymously without registration where (City, supermarket),
> when (Date and Time) he plans to go to the supermarket.
> If this is done by a lot of users, the first user gets to see the number of
> other buyers at this supermarket and can better plan when to go shopping.
> This would reduce the waiting queue at the supermarket and possibly the
> contact to other people thus would help a little bit in slowing down the
> spread of the Corona virus.
> One could also add openstreetmap functionality to this.
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> As I am not a professional software developer, I can not predict how long
> it would take to write such a web-app in python.
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> If you do not have currently time, but know someone who would possibly be
> interested in working at this project, I would be happy if you let me know.
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> Kind regards,
> Orges Leka
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