Build a Better Online Shopping Experience

Just about everything online has some form of shopping these days: products, memberships, tipping, loot boxes — e-commerce is everywhere. Your challenge is to come up with ways to make it more fun.

Developers now have access to the most advanced tools we’ve ever seen, but so far we’re still seeing the same old approaches to selling things online.

We want you to imagine how online shopping could be improved using the tools available today. Listen to a description of a meal and use that to fill a grocery cart? Use someone’s musical taste to recommend what sandwich they should order? Use computer vision to let customers blink Morse code to enter discount codes? Get creative with this one!

The apps do not need to be practical — but they do need to be fun.

The Tool: OpenRouter

Your app must use OpenRouter as part of the build.

OpenRouter unifies access to hundreds of AI models, including from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. One account, one place to manage credits, and API access to all the major models.