Campus Buddy

Here at CampusBuddy we're making student’s lives more sustainable by facilitating ride-sharing & you can compare your progress to that of your peers by following your scoreboard !

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Inspiration

As universities gradually reopen following the pandemic.The number of students commuting to campus grows, causing traffic and parking space congestion & concerning carbon emissions levels. So here at CampusBuddy we encourage ride-sharing where students can compare their progress to that their peers by following their scoreboard, which comes with additional perks of free rides !

What it does

  1. Students can register as a driver or a rider on CampusBuddy, which connects them to ride share.
  2. It pairs students with similar schedules who live nearby to save campus parking and pollution.
  3. Every time a rider takes a ride, their score on the scoreboard is increased.
  4. A rider receives a free ride if they ride share more than four times per week.

How we built it

HTML/CSS/JS/AngularJS/GoogleMaps & Canva is used to present and prototype back-end functionality, as well as entity relationship diagrams

Challenges we ran into

We didn't have a lot of time to work on the project, so we didn't get as much accomplished as we would have hoped. We underestimated the amount of effort that went into the project's creation. Over the course of the project two team members left. The first had squandered our time by leaving us without saying anything. Moreover, we feel like this hackathon made us better developers as we feel like we took on an overwhelming task for our skill level and accomplished good results.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are happy of having developed the project's front end, prototyped back end functionalities, and created business models from the ground up in just a few hours! We pushed past our comfort zone and used technologies that were new to us. It was a great learning experience since everyone in the group was able to learn something new.

What we learned

This hackathon was a tremendous learning opportunity. It opened my eyes to the challenges of developing a website in few hours. We learned Js and Angular JS API , Google maps API as well as business model development & most significantly teamwork!

What's next for Campus Buddy

  • To allow messaging within the app so people have a secure and private outlet to communicate with others on how to move from one place to another.
  • Allow students to enter their schedules to help facilitate better ride sharing.
  • Add Paypal/GooglePay/Skrill integration to allow riders to tip drivers.
  • Utilize Google Maps API to match users who fit within a radius of the same origin/destination.
  • For rider and driver authentication, use Google Vision AI to recognise the driver's automobile and licence plate.
  • We would like to expand our services to provide books, utilities sharing on campus.
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