InstaRip | Devpost

Inspiration

While browsing spicy memes on Instagram, one of our team members would save posts within Instagram. The problem was, that "Saved" library could only be accessed within Instagram, shared within Instagram, and if the original post or account was deleted, the spicy meme was gone, too.

What it does

When browsing a social media app, you take a screenshot of a post you like. We use GCP's Cloud Vision API to detect textual blocks in the image and use some custom algorithmic magic to make a crop of the image that cuts out the clutter. You can then browse and organize your photo library in the InstaRip app.

How we built it

Google's Flutter framework for the mobile app, and Firebase Functions, Storage, Database, and Auth for the backend stuff. And GCP Cloud Vision.

Challenges we ran into

Using GCP Cloud Vision is not easy. Neither is figuring out Google's documentation

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Took a convenient idea and made it into a very easy-to-use app!

What we learned

Just use the SDK libraries properly. Testing the MLKit functions for on-device processing would be cool, too.

What's next for InstaRip

Detect more social media post types, and better.

Built With

android-emulator
cloud-vision-api
firebase
firebase-auth
firebase-functions
flutter
gcp
love
typescript
usb-cable
vscode

Submitted to

AuburnHacks 2019

Created by

I worked on the Firebase Auth, Functions, Database stuff, and some of the image recognition/cropping.

Private user
Built the logic to detect and crop social media images using the Google Cloud Vision API

Sean Gillen
Came up with the idea and worked on the entire Flutter front-end, as well as Firebase Auth, Cloud Firestore and Cloud Storage.

Mayank Agarwal
Created the service to continuously look for instagram screenshots and upload them to blobs even when the app is running in background

Amber Gupta