Inspiration

Our inspiration started with us both seeking new living accommodations or looking for a new housemate to move in for next year.

What it does

Our mobile app takes in user admitted data during the profile set up stage to showcase who you are as a person and as a potential roommate/housemate. Others can then view your engaging profile with our swiping feature to which you can express interest and reach out. If both users swipe right, there is a match! This match will show up on our feed with their contact information.

How we built it

We built our app using React Native, Expo, and TypeScript.

Challenges we ran into

Setting up our app was a huge challenge as we never used these frameworks before. We would often run into configuration issues, caching stalls, and Expo CLI / Metro bundler errors.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of not giving up on our initial idea even though setting up the app took way longer than anticipated. It was an ambitious project and it wasn't easy to work on it with just two people, which made our progress all the more rewarding.

What we learned

We learned new frameworks and how to integrate our ideas into a mobile app!

What's next for BananaBunks

We would love to implement a messaging feature next. Stay tuned.

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