Can I Borrow Your Dog

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Inspiration

We hear all the time that people want a dog but they don't want the committment and yet there's still issues with finding a pet sitter! We flipped the 'tinder'-esque mobile app experience around to reflect just how many people are desparate and willing to spend time with a furry friend!

What it does

Our web app allows users to create an account and see everyone who is currently looking to babysit a cute puppy or is trying to find a pet sitter so that they can go away for vacation! The app also allows users to engage in chat messages so they can find a perfect weekend getaway for their dogs.

How we built it

Our web app is primariy a react app on the front end and we used a combination of individual programming and extreme programming when we hit walls.

Ruby on rails and SQLite run the back end and so with a team of four we had two people manning the keyboards for the front end and the other two working diligently on the backend.

Challenges we ran into

GITHUB!!!! Merging, pushing, pulling, resolving, crying, fetching, syncing, sobbing, approving, etc etc. We put our repo through a stranglehold of indecipherable commits more than a few times and it was our greatest rival

Accomplishments that we're proud of

IT WORKS! We're so proud to build an app that looks amazing and also communicates on a sophisticated level. The user experience is cute and delightful but the complexities are still baked in like session tokens and password hashing (plus salt!)

What we learned

The only way to get fast is to go well. The collaboration phase with github ate up a large part of our time every couple of hours and there was nobody to blame but ourselves.

What's next for Can I Borrow Your Dog

We think this a pretty cool little app that could do a LARGE refactoring. Whether we keep in touch as a gorup and maintain this project to spruce up our resumes is definitely being considered. We'd like to show our friends and family how much we accomplished in just 36 hours (straight lol)!