Bike Chain

Bike Chain logo

Inspiration

The idea for Bike Chain came from Zip car which was a service that was seen as a disruptive technology because it allowed people to find cars around their area, pay for them and then unlock a car and go. Citi bike rentals is privately owned, but a flaw that discourages its use is displacement of bicycles in different parts of a city. To promote the use of bike transportation and sustainable form of public transportation, citi bikes needs to be more accessible beyond their kiosks. This is where Bike Chain comes in.

What it does

Using block chain technology to make a decentralized system for transactions, Bike Chain is a web application that connects users to a crowd sourced network of bikes in any city or town that makes bikes more accessible, easier pay for, and holds more accountability to users to maintain the bikes.

How we built it

We used vite.js to create the web application, we utilized the Tailwind.css to make it easier to style the front end, Google maps api to make a map to display our bike network, and attempted to integrate the midnight blockchain's api.

Challenges we ran into

Finding a map api that we could use that wouldn't require us putting in our credit card information. (Because we're broke college students). We also struggled implementing a dApp just because of time constraints.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of coming up with a proof of concept that gives us hope that web 3 isn't dead and that we were able to create something from skills we learned in our classes shout out ITWS majors.