SmartBasket
SmartBasket puts nearby deals in the context of what someone already plans to buy.
Hack Canada 2025
Product Design · Development
2025
The mobile concept brings shopping lists, local sale discovery, price comparison, and contribution rewards into a single card-based interface.
- Platform
- Mobile app
- Timeline
- February 2025
- Focus
- Grocery lists and nearby sale discovery
- Stack
- Firebase · Gemini API · SerpAPI · Google Cloud
Overview
Designed and developed at Hack Canada 2025, SmartBasket combines generative AI with location-based crowdsourcing to help Canadians compare local shopping options. The home screen moves from nearby offers to a personal basket and contribution rewards, keeping price, store, and distance visible together.
Discovery
Connect today's offers to the shopping list
The Today card presents nearby product suggestions as quick-add chips. Below it, the basket summary reports the number of saved products and highlights items currently on sale, with each offer showing its price, store, and distance.
Add-to-list and nearby-items actions sit directly beside that summary. The layout connects browsing to list building, so the shopper can move between a new deal and an existing need without leaving the same overview.
Comparison
Organize the basket around nearby stores
The shopping-list view groups items by retailer and pairs each store with its distance and item count. This gives the basket a second structure beyond individual products: where the shopper might go to find them.
The new-item flow introduces automatic price comparison and explains that pricing and a suggested store appear after an item is added. That short explanation makes the proposed comparison behavior visible at the point of entry.
Contribution
Make local sale information a shared activity
Contribution prompts ask whether the shopper has seen a sale at a nearby store. Other states ask whether listed items are still on sale, bringing confirmation into the same experience as discovery.
A points card shows reward balance, level, and progress toward the next level. Bright green highlights separate current offers from the softer shopping-list cards, while rounded containers and direct actions give the different parts of the product a shared visual language.