Home page of Annasetu website.
This is the donor section where donors can register there food.
List of food and there status.
Map for tracking the food from pickup point to destination.
This section is used by volunteer to confirm the pickup.

Inspiration

Every day, perfectly good food is thrown away by homes, restaurants, and events, while people nearby go hungry. The food exists and the people who need it exist, but nothing connects them quickly. Annasetu ("anna" = food, "setu" = bridge) is our attempt to build that bridge: a platform where surplus food can be listed and reach those who need it before it goes to waste.

What it does

Annasetu lets donors post surplus food and lets people or organizations in need find and claim it.

How we built it

Frontend: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (index.html, app.js, data.js), plus an interactive 3D hero section (hero3d.js) to make the landing page memorable.
Backend: A Flask (Python) API that handles requests from the frontend.
Database: MySQL to store users, food listings, and claims reliably.
Deployment: Code on GitHub, the database hosted on Aiven, and the web service deployed on Render, so the app runs online and not just on our laptops.

Challenges we ran into

Adding a real backend to a frontend-only project. The app began as static files with data in data.js. Moving that data into MySQL and connecting it through Flask meant rethinking how the frontend fetched and saved information.
Going from local to live. Running on localhost is easy. Hosting the database on Aiven, deploying on Render, and managing environment variables and database credentials safely took a lot of debugging.
Keeping the repo organized so the project, which lives in a subfolder, deployed correctly from GitHub.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We took Annasetu from a static prototype to a working full-stack app with a hosted database and a live deployment.

What we learned

How to design a MySQL schema and connect it to a Flask backend
How to deploy a full-stack app using GitHub, Render, and a managed cloud database
How to handle secrets and configuration without hardcoding them
Debugging across layers: frontend, API, database, and hosting

What's next for Annasetu

We're currently adding a login page for donors and NGOs, so each can have their own account, donors can manage their listings, and NGOs can securely claim and track food pickups.

Built With

Submitted to

Nebius x NVIDIA Global AI Hackathon

Created by

1. Backend and database: Designed the MySQL database and built the Flask backend that connects it to the frontend.

2. Deployment: Set up the MySQL database on Aiven, deployed the web service on Render, and managed the code on GitHub.

3. Demo and documentation: Recorded the demo video and wrote the project story.

Durgesh Bhadane
I have worked on backed using python

Mayuri Chaudhari
Vedant Gughane
Mansi Pandey