Locrafts is all about generating a buzz for local creativity using machine learning. It finds local gift makers and designers in the United Kingdom. Everything is pulled together, analysed and displayed in a single portal where the designers and their gifts are shown. The results can be filtered by the colours of the gift products and the location of the designers.
There are many factors behind Locrafts’ decision-making process. Some of these include analysing what you post on your website and what you share on your social media accounts (where the APIs permit it). Other factors are hidden for obvious reasons, but the algorithm takes a lot into account, and it may decide against displaying some makers and their gifts on the platform. So some of the gifts discovered may never reach the website, in its attempt to keep spam gifts from being posted and shared on the platform.
The system is built using cutting-edge technologies: AWS hosts the machine learning models, React is used for the front-end interface and Node.js for the back-end API.
More updates to come soon!