Inspiration
At Rose-Hulman, every student is well aware of the annoyances that are SharePoint emails. These emails get sent out to every student, professor, and faculty member and anyone can use this service immediately. While it has its upsides, SharePoint is most often used for students to buy and sell used textbooks. This creates an productive environment where buyers and sellers can meet and do business, but there is absolutely no reason why every student needs to know when someone wants to make an exchange.
What it does
Bookalicious connects people who want to sell their used textbooks to those who want to buy them in a simple, easy to use format.
Putting up a book for sale is as easy as listing the books title, subject, and a picture of it. then sit back and let the buyers come to you!
If you want to buy a book, simply state the subject(s) of interest and books for sale and scroll through the local books for sale until you find the textbook you want. If you see what you like, press the "I want this!" button and you will be paired up with the seller in a private chat system. This is the place where the buyer and seller can negotiate prices and meeting places, all without any other student receiving an email in the process!
How we built it
We created the mobile app through Android studio with Java and XML
Our website was created using Bootstrap, html, css, and Javascript
The server is running off of two Raspberry Pis
All of the data we use (Profiles, Books for sale, etc.) is stored on Parse.
Icons were made with Paint.net
Challenges we ran into
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Accomplishments that were proud of
Constructing two platforms that Bookalicious can run on.
What's next for Bookalicious
Plenty of fine tuning: Fully functional messaging, completion of the web app, better review system.
We will push this app towards the Dean of Students at Rose-Hulman and see if this app can get promoted, eventually reducing some of the clutter on Rose's SharePoint.
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