Tuo Padre (2024)

All of Genoa's supermarket flyers, in one place

Tuo Padre is the revolution of Genoese shopping: all offers, updated daily, in one place.
Tuo Padre was born from a real, daily need of those who want to save money without spending hours checking all the local flyers.

Frontend

Backend

Challenges

1
Budget constraint: the point of the webapp is to save money: it wouldn't make sense to spend on infrastructure!
2
Flyer structure: each supermarket uses a different system for flyer management, from VolantinoPiù to PDF.
3
Usability: the webapp must be fast and simple to use, to guarantee time savings, as well as money

Solutions

1
Zero cost: The project was deployed on the client's personal local server, not incurring extra costs
2
Custom development: Each support system for the flyer is managed ad-hoc
3
UX / UI kept to a minimum: there are no unnecessary features, the app allows filtering by supermarket and sorting based on different values

Project status

The project has reached MVP status, and is in the development and improvement phase.
The biggest challenge is managing PDF flyers. As a document designed to be browsed and to entice purchasing, it doesn't present a regular structure that can be easily identified to process offers through OCR. Research for a solution is ongoing, the use of LLMs or other AI agents for document reading is not ruled out.