GSoC 2025 Proposal: Smart Dashboard & Tagging System Draft Implementation

[22404sonalmishra]

Hi, I'm Sonal Mishra, an applicant for GSoC 2025. I've started working on a draft implementation of the Smart Dashboard & Tagging System idea. I'd love to get feedback or discuss how best to align this with project goals.

Here's my draft repository: https://github.com/22404sonalmishra/open-food-facts-explorer

Looking forward to your insights!

[22404sonalmishra]

Hi again! I've pushed a basic working version that fetches data from the Open Food Facts API and displays it on a dashboard. Would love any feedback you have!

[github-throwaway]

Please publish the site with GitHub Pages or Vercel. So people just need to click a link. Thanks.

[VaiTon]

Hey @22404sonalmishra , I'm sorry to say this but that repository is just a simple HTML page. I don't see anything regarding a Tagging System or a Smart Dashboard. Are you sure that's the right repository?

[22404sonalmishra]

Hi @VaiTon and @github-throwaway, thank you both for the feedback!

You're right that the current version is still basic in terms of UI, but I’ve implemented the foundation of the project as per the proposal — it includes:

Fetching data from the Open Food Facts API

A basic dashboard that displays top results

An initial version of the tagging system where categories/tags are displayed for each product result

The project is live here :
🔗 https://open-food-facts-explorer.vercel.app

This is still a work in progress and I'm actively building out more advanced dashboard features and tagging logic next. Would really appreciate any thoughts or suggestions!

Thanks again!

[github-throwaway]

Thanks for the link. I’m not sure what you are trying to do / show here. There is no need to write a compete new front end. We already have that. It’s the explorer repository.

Smart Dashboard and tagging system - what does that even mean? Please clearly (and without LLM bullshit buzzwords) tell us in one sentence what you are trying to build here because I don’t get it.

[JagjeevanAK]

100% correct keep it simple and clean. so that everyone understands.

[22404sonalmishra]

Thanks for the feedback! I'm building a basic prototype that fetches product data from the Open Food Facts API and displays key tags and nutrition info. The goal is to later add filtering and automatic tag suggestions as part of the Smart Dashboard & Tagging System idea.

[github-throwaway]

I really don’t understand the idea behind this? It is not a dashboard and it is not smart. You are build a different front end with a different tech stack compared to the explorer frontend.

You can of course do this for your own pleasure but we will not be able to mentor you for this I’m afraid.

I’ll close this discussion.

You are of course always welcome to contribute to the explorer repository. 😌