- Meet Pincy's, Pintrest + Macy's. This Chrome extension places an unobtrusive button on the Pintrest UI that when clicked, searches the pin on Macy's and returns the best matching results.
- Flask
- A Flask server to generate the content for the extension
- SQLAlchemy
- Database of the product suggestions returned by Macy's, with information on their user rating, views, clickthrough rate, and Mechanical Turk rating.
- Amazon Mechanical Turk
- Leverages the power of MTurk to provide ratings for how closely suggestions match pins.
- Popular pins can be submitted in batches to MTurk for human pairing with products from Macy's.
- Sebastian Merz
- JavaScript side, built the Chrome extension to add the Pincy's UI to Pinterest. Debugged stuff.
- Nick Firmani
- Python side, built the Flask/SQLAlchemy/MTurk backend to provide accurate suggestions.
- Spring 2014