Barbers Open Yet?

Possibly my favourite personal project that I have worked on so far, due to the sheer cheek of it... And it actually provided a real benefit to my life, which is a first for any of my projects! (Twice now hahaaa)

Towards the end of the first UK national lockdown that took place March-July 2020, my hair reached a state that I did not think I would ever see again (I have had some shameful hair 'phases' in my life). Although it had almost become a new normal to see people enter video chats with their hair shaved off, I knew I was not alone in waiting for the day the barbers opened back up.

This otherworldly demand inspired me to take actions into my own hands. I did not have the time to constantly refresh the booking website every few hours, and nobody knew how many people were waiting for the official announcement through social media. So I decided I'd beat the crowd by creating a bot that visits the website for me and sends out a text to me and my friends once it detected that bookings are available.