Inspiration
We want to help low income people who are recovering from COVID-19 or in a high risk group safely get the food they need. Many cannot afford services like InstaCart or UberEats, where there are often high delivery fees. However, there are an abundance of people looking to help out their community in any way they can. We've seen people in our college subreddits sharing contact information so they can help high risk individuals who can't afford expensive delivery fees. We want to make this process more accessible and efficient, so we decided to build CareCart.
What it does
CareCart matches volunteers to people who need grocery delivery but can't afford expensive fees on services like InstaCart. People can open delivery requests, and volunteers can see and accept delivery requests near them.
How we built it
We built the frontend in Vue, HTML, SCSS, JavaScript, and Mapbox. The backend is built in Python using MongoDB and FastAPI. We use Azure to host our backend.
Challenges we ran into
We ran into many problems intrinsic in rapid prototyping like last minute bugs, learning new technologies, and efficient delegation of tasks. We were able to overcome these challenges just in time for the deadline.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're proud of quickly designing and building both the backend and frontend.
What we learned
We learned how to quickly prioritize and delegate tasks, as well as how to quickly and collaboratively design every part of the application.
What's next for CareCart
We are going to brush up the functionality and eventually make a mobile application. We look forward to launching for communities in need.
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