Weekend Hack: app to check Book Prices over a Phone
This weekend i have built an app thought with you get Get Book Prices Over a Phone if you know the Book ISBN.
Simple : just make a Call to 040-44556944 and enter my App code 5692 and follow the instructions.
A typical use case can be like you are at a book store and the Shopkeer is saying the price of some Book as Rs X so you can just make a call to this app and find the Bookprice from Flipkart, infibeam, and Landmark. (these are online Book stores) Flipkart and infibeam offer freeshiping so just in-case the Price is low than what shopkeeper is saying you can either bargain or buy it from these stores overall you can save some money 
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Process Flow of the Call.
story behind.
A Professor at my college was working on a Startup which has developed a Telephone Applications through with we can integrate web app with Telephone. so after playing around with it for some time. finally i could build this
Techonologies used:
PHP (codeignitor), Yahoo YQL , and Kookoo.in API.
In my Next post i will Share the code and write a how to atricle on building a Kookoo based app in PHP with codeignitor.
Suggestion and comments for the app are welcome.
Cool app Sandeep. Let me know if people start using it, I will try to get some ports for you.
This is a real use case which can certainly be used. Try to think of nice catch phrase “Don’t buy a book blindly, make the call first” or something like that and try to post it to technology blogs and get noticed.Lets see how it goes.
thanks sir
is there any analytics for who is calling and all for the apps in Kookoo sir or app it self has to take care of that.
Application seems to be kool.. waiting for the source code
yeah will let u know once its shared sunil
Awesome work
thanks dude
Did the exact same thing last week
-http://blog.nparashuram.com/2010/09/dial-to-find-price-of-book.html
wow looks like u did it in 1hr awesome man ..
Simple yet very helpful. congrats
thanks bro .
Commendable effort, but I can’t help sounding cynical here:
How about using a barcode/QRcode reader software on a smartphone to scan the barcode, then you have an option that says “Search with Google Shopping” wherein there are inherent options to compare prices, check out user reviews (your app does not offer insights here) etc.
There are similar applications for Android, iPhone, Symbian etc (Barcode scanner softwares) It’s the new trend for information seekers and acts as a tangible bridge between the physical world and the virtual world.
Cheers,
Neil
Does any one know about Sandeep’s DOB?
Try try .. its not that easy ..