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My AI-built parcel-shipping savings mini program is finally live

Hello everyone, I'm Xiaoyi, a programmer and a student in the Shengcai Navigation and AI Deep Sea communities. Today, I finally used AI to launch a small tool that truly saves money. The inspiration for developing this tool came from sending packages in daily life. Even when sending packages, ordering through different channels can result in significantly different prices.

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Hello everyone, I'm Xiaoyi, a programmer and a student in the Shengcai Navigation and AI Deep Sea communities. Today, I finally used AI to launch a small tool that truly saves money. The inspiration for developing this tool came from sending packages in daily life. Even when sending packages, ordering through different channels can result in significantly different prices. For example, JD Logistics that I tested today: Standard shipping: ¥16 Image 1 Online shopping return shipping: ¥6 Image 2 With the same shipping information, the freight cost differed by 10 yuan. As a programmer, I thought: Could I develop a tool that integrates these money-saving channels for sending packages, so ordinary users don't have to search everywhere? So…

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