Collectibles are big business, with a global market place estimated to be about $370 bn. Whether it’s Toys or time pieces, cars or coins, lots of folks simply like collecting things!
There comes a point for any collector though when managing their collection becomes a job in itself. That’s what we’re focusing on for the #wdc this weekend. Our challenge is to build an app that let’s collectors keep track of their collections!
Books
We’ve seen a couple of great #wdc entries already this year that involve books or reading and this challenge is very much inspired by the work that @codeswept has done on Bookestion and BookARead so I would highly recommend checking those out.
Spindle
There’s tons of great inspiration over on dribbble, for example this shot by Diana Gabor uses 3 colours and puts information like publication date and page count front and centre:
This animation from Zakir shows how a barcode scanner can be used to get details about a book
Ex Libris
For this challenge we’re even providing you with a starter template called Ex Libris which you can use if you like.
The main feature here is not the design (I’m leaving that part up to you!) but the ability to scan a barcode from a book, send that to the Open Library API and return lots of interesting details about that book.
@rishabh_2008 - the theme for the week is to design something for a collector, so it can be any sort of app for managing or curating a collection. You get to decide what components you want to use!
A barcode scanner probably isn’t much use if it’s for someone collecting cars or stamps (you can just use manual data entry I suppose?) but if you want to pull data in quickly for something like a book or record collection then the barcode scanner is a great way to do this so I’ve provided an example to show one way of getting started with it.
Wow - very excited to see that the sample app has been remixed over 100 times in the past 2 days - if anyone has any questions about using the open library API (or any other aspects of this challenge!) let us know here.
Good question - here are the docs in case anyone is looking for them.
The API I’ve linked to doesn’t require authentication, you just pass it the ISBN (barcode) from the book and it gives you back the details. Are you using a different API? Have you studied the Ex Libris sample app?
Yes I studied the app ! It is very good , Awesome ! But just want to know when you were making app ,have you put the URL in it or not Just have this question
Please tell !!!
I have made the project of #WDC 23 but only 1 screen is left of bar code Which i need help from any other people
If you need help, search the forums first as well as the documentation. If you still can’t figure it out, create a new topic and provide details including screenshots or a link to your project. Explain what you’ve tried and what does/does not work.
On the scrScan screen of the Ex Libris project, you can see the url used for the API
My app
~Features
• It has a feature that u can upload Pdf…By using AIRTABLE of 2GB storage
• It can scan Bar code of the Books
• It has Web viewer to see community
