Breakfast Bar

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Inspiration

Struggles with balance in everyday life as an engineering student (school vs friends vs health vs...)

What it does

It provides a user-friendly interface dashboard that connects anything and everything you need in everyday life, while also being able to categorize those into the specific aspects of your life that you want to balance.

How we built it

We utilized a React js base, using mainly Javascript to compose the source code. Within the javascript files, we build the website pages. AWS provided authentication, authorization, and hosting through Cognito and Amplify.

Challenges we ran into

The first challenge we encountered was creating a database that would help us retain user information for their dashboard, this is probably because we were all new to creating databases on AWS and it turned out that we didn't have the necessary permissions to create an Aurora DSQL database. The next challenge was hosting it on the .tech domain, turns out that feature was broken, so we had to shift to AWS Amplify, we had no trouble hosting the webpage on AWS but we had some trouble re-routing the webpages.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Since it was a first proper hackathon for most of us, we were really proud of just getting a somewhat good product. We were able to build the application pretty close to what we envisioned in the beginning. Another thing is that we learned a lot of new stuff about different services involved in creating a web-application.

What we learned

I would say we learned a lot about AWS services and how they can help streamline our processes. We also learned a lot about how APIs work, transfer data, and answer to requests.

What's next for Breakfast Bar

Adding in AI-powered module to the website to empower users to compare their desired balance between their aspects and their actual balance that they input. Additionally, more customization options like user-customized styling for their dashboard, variable modules, and user-input fields for their desired websites.