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lolodotzip
lolodotzip shipped fuckCustoms
4 days ago

Shipped this project!

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thanks for your interest in my project! fuckCustoms has been made to kind of have this humouristic side because of how customs are always annoying and unpredictable, but to actually solve the issue of not knowing how much you’re going to pay! with this tool, you just put the value of what you’re getting, where you are, and you get an estimate! i’ve tested it with a personal item i’ve gotten from hackclub, and it’s pretty precise (was 70 cents off). of course, that’ll vary with your experience i’m sure, but i hope it’ll be precise enough for you!
i learnt a lot, especially in handling JSON files properly in javascript, as the first iteration had the whole country list in the main script.js, which made it very messy. turns out making a JSON for each thing was a more proper approach!
and if you have any contrib to do, don’t hesitate to drop a pr!

lolodotzip
lolodotzip worked on fuckCustoms
4 days ago
0h 22m logged

final devlog!!
i’m probably gonna go ship! (and go to bed, as it is midnight here).
i’ve finished making the readme, and tailoring the last stuff i wanted to do! the readme puts a real emphasis on the project’s ideas and story, but also on the open source contribution part with a guidance on how to edit country information from the JSON side with a detail of what variable does what, and guidance on doing a pull request. i hope everyone who eventually uses this enjoys it and finds reliable data across the site! (and sorry in advance if it’s not!!!)
and i also credited all the due APIs and tools i used, such as lucide icons or even the exchangerate API.

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lolodotzip worked on fuckCustoms
4 days ago
0h 25m logged

ANOTHER ONE
this time i added the last feature i truely wanted to add which is breaking down the actual calculation, because the calculation isn’t that hard to explain in itself, so now if you click the estimate you can see a little breakdown of how the estimate has been calculated! you do have to keep in mind that the handling fees are not insanely precise but should give you a rough estimate tho.
and for this well this was pretty easy to make since in the JS we were already calculating both the vat, duty, and handling so i just converted these to the actual correct currency and displayed those with a click event listener!

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lolodotzip worked on fuckCustoms
4 days ago
2h 32m logged

WOOHOO THE BACKEND IS FINALLY ALIVE!!!!
i think i’ve done the hardest part of the project so far, actually finding out how to calculate the custom fees! (this include the handling fee from the courier, the possible duty rates if it exceeds the certain local thresholds, and the VAT of the country).
the way I’ve did this is thanks to the JSON list of countries I found earlier, i made another JSON list with every single country on my list (that has obtainable data), and in this list i compiled the VAT rate, the duty rates and thresholds, and the local handling fees. all of the information about the rates has been found thanks to Google Gemini, because finding exchange rates for like 194 countries wouldn’t have been coding and would have just been a waste of time. the data is quite pretty precise tho!
after that, the data is loaded into the browser and after all calculations, we come up to the conclusion of “total = VAT + duty fees (if applicable) + handling fees.”. this variable is then converted into the user’s country’s currency, and badaam done!

sorry for the long devlog, but a lot of stuff to say!
i also removed the origin country (which originally contained selectors for UK/US since stuff on flavortown can be shipped from UK), but turns out it does no difference, so I ended up removing it altogether.
and also did a couple of quick UI edits there and there, and yay!!!!

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lolodotzip worked on fuckCustoms
4 days ago
1h 40m logged

another devlog!
i just finished to do all the front end, which means all the actual interface the end user will see. the remaining stuff to do will be the backend, which will be all the math rules per country for calculation of the fees and duty. i’m pretty happy of how i got the country selector to work, i managed to do it thanks to a github gist, here the one by @keeguon made 14 years ago, with the list of countries in JSON. then, I put all this in a tag and made it cleaner using the ‘choices’ JS library, to have a search field, and i would say i’m pretty happy of the end result!
i hope making the actual backend won’t be too hard, and another devlog soon I hope!

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lolodotzip
lolodotzip worked on fuckCustoms
4 days ago
0h 39m logged

first devlog!
i almost finished the main static interface of the tool, based on a very dark-ish color palette. The point will be to make a very sober and simple looking tool to calculate customs, something that’s in theory a bit more difficult to do. (so altogether: simple ui => to do hard stuff ig)
the project will eventually allow people to calculate their customs for any country, and for any package they are recieving via hackclub, so i hope this will turn out good!
(the app will be entirely revolving around HTML, CSS, and JS, no fancy frameworks or stuff like that)

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lolodotzip shipped hackCLIMap
5 days ago

Shipped this project!

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with this project, hack club mail is now at the fingerprints of your terminal, making checking your mail quicker and cooler-ish? i guess!
also i’m very happy because the earth map works and is way faster than the web version that’s very cluttered and keeps dragging my browser to an halt
so this actually works and this is pretty cool!
making the project was fun and i learnt a lot about using APIs and idk doing stuff id often do in bash but this time in js :)

lolodotzip
lolodotzip worked on hackCLIMap
5 days ago
0h 40m logged

FINALLY SHIPPING!!!

finished all the READMEs and frontends and website and stuff
and also made the global earth map, kinda like how it is on hackclub mail’s website it represents all the mail sent globally via hackclub worldwide! with status like mailed, recieved, etc… (https://mail.hackclub.com/map).
you can zoom with the ctrl + scroll wheel to get more readable screen real estate and see more information btw!! (and exit with escape, ctrl-c, q, whataver your liking is)

so yeah, now shippign thjis project! and if you have anything to report or suggestions pls either drop them on github or in the comments

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Wowstar
Wowstar 5 days ago

wow!

lolodotzip
lolodotzip worked on hackCLIMap
5 days ago
5h 0m logged

first devlog!!! (sorry, i completely forgot to make devlogs and make the project on flavortown so thats why theres so little devlogs)

made all the main app excluding the global earth view. so this is like hack club mail app where you can list your incoming mail and packages and see their statuses, IDs, all that all the information but right from a terminal app. its also noticebly way faster than having to go thru it on the website.

it saves the API key locally and does requests via the hack club mail API! (you need to get a hack club mail api key from mail.hackclub.com’s website)
idk what else to say but yes 5h devlog
and also i started working on the HTML/README at that time for the static pages when i was writing this devlog so yeah but now they are fully done

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