This is a submission for Twilio Challenge v24.06.12
What I Built 🛠️
A WhatsApp bot which gives you recycling ideas at your fingertips.
WhatsApp is such a popular and convenient platform, that almost everyone has it. Just message the bot and tell it what you want to recycle.
It works with text as well as images 🖼️✨
Motivation
Often times while cleaning my house, I come across stuff I don’t need anymore. Wouldn’t it be nice to just snap a picture with the most used app on my phone and get instructions on how to recycle it? Well, think no more…
Demo📱
Currently the app is running in a sandbox environment.
Text join want-correctly to +14155238886 OR scan the QR code below.
Link to code
This is my submission for the DEV Twilio Challenge
Just tell it what you want to recycle
Even works with images!
Twilio and AI ✨
I used the Twilio Messaging API to setup communication through WhatsApp. I’ve used Google Cloud Vision API to detect what object the sender has captured. Then I’ve engineered a prompt and fed that to Open AI’s GPT 3.5 Turbo to get instructions on recycling the object.
Additional Prize Categories 🏆
Impactful Innovators
Some thoughts 🩵
- Working with Twilio has been quite easy. Things are pretty straight forward. I absolutely loved the fact that I didn’t have to provide any billing information to get started.
- I was surprised by the simplicity of the steps needed to started with creating a WhatsApp Bot. Great job Twilio! Definitely going to continue using Twilio for building some cool stuff.
- Thank you DEV Team for organising awesome contests like these 🙂
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