Book Fleet

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Inspiration

There are several people or students who can't afford books due to either by financial status or lack of awareness. Also there are much less public libraries in India as compared to other countries and sometimes a particular book is not available on a book store. So to tackle these problems , we came up with our solution.

What it does

Here, a person can upload his/her books that he has either read or want to give to other people either on a rental basis or sell out to them or donate it out. A second person who is searching for a similar book can find it on the app and then can contact the former to rent out the book or lend out the book.

How we built it

We first created a basic design on Figma. Coded the frontend part first using react native and then started adding the backend. Adding the backend was a tough task and then did some finishing touches like adding loading screens etc.

Challenges we ran into

-> There were some bugs in react native whose solutions weren't available on the internet. -> some of the React Native API's especially in Expo has been deprecated. Therefore, we needed to read the whole documentation which was a very tedious task. -> The watchman in react native needed some updates that we weren't aware of. Therefore, we needed to start and restart the server several times to reflect the changes in realtime.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  1. We got to learn app-building step by step.
  2. We learned team building & got the opportunity to work with amazing people with great technical skills.
  3. We got to learn about the real-world problems which needed to be addressed and we tried a technical approach for the same.
  4. We discovered some really amazing technical solutions to real-world problems which inspired us to address our problem in a more realistic & efficient way.

What we learned

Through out this creating process, we were fortunate enough to learn about the basics of android development through react native, Expo , Javascript and firebase. Also we come across the features that we haven't knew but exist in code editors and designing tools.

What's next for Book Fleet

Till now, application provides a very rough experience and users have to explicitly contact the book owners. In the future, we are planning to add a shipping system that would help users to get books at their doorsteps at very cheap or barely noticeable pricing. We are also planning to add a system that would sufficient enough to filter out the results and provide user a tailored experience.

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