Caliber

Is getting to campus difficult for you? Late for a midterm and need to rush over there? Introducing, Caliber, a bike and scooter rental app that gets you where you want to go without the hassle.

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Inspiration

We all agreed that it was difficult getting to campus sometimes if we had an urgent need to be there since none of us had bikes or scooters so we were excited to build an app that could fix that problem.

What it does

It's an app that rents out bikes and scooters from other university students and charges a rate benefitting both the rentee, who may need it for an urgent reason and the renter, who can make a passive income.

How we built it

We created the logic and design of the app using Figma and then used React to create the front end. Afterwards, we developed the backend using MongoDB and tied it together with Express.JS and Node.js. The interactive maps were created by use of the Google-Earth API.

Challenges we ran into

As beginner hackers, we ran into a many problems and struggled for quite a bit:

  1. We struggled with the conception of the idea because there were many obstacles that could cause it to fail, including but not limited to ... insurance for scooters and bikes, the ease with which it could be stolen, etc. but we managed to find workarounds.
  2. Our limited experience with Node.js and back-end programming. This whole hackathon was a giant learning experience for us and we were excited to learn new things but as a result, we didn't get through the project as much as we thought we would.

  3. We were unsure of how to create interactive maps with interactive markers so we didn't get to implement it.

    Accomplishments that we're proud of

  4. We learned a lot this weekend and progressed with what I thought was a fairly useful idea

  5. We had amazing app design so the only that that remains in developing this app is allowing our coding skills to catch up.

What we learned

  1. Back-end programming: MongoDB, Cockroach DB
  2. Mobile Development: React Native

What's next for Caliber

FInishing the app, adding animations, and creating an MVP that could go on the app store

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