Postbox Hunter
This project was borne out of the frustration of not being able to locate the nearest postbox easily. Google maps does not have data on all postboxes in Singapore and the official postbox locator from Singpost is not user-friendly and does not show postboxes near my current location. A request for postbox location API data from Singpost was met with a sales pitch to buy their place APIs. Decided to perform a bit of data scraping from their website using Selenium and Beautiful Soup in Python. This being a solely frontend project, I used React along with a library called google-maps-react to plot out the locations of postboxes and post offices in Singapore, calculate the distance from a user's current location to it and provide walking directions in a google map application. In 3 days, I crafted a simple, clean application to locate places to drop your letter mail off based on your current location.