Cartwheels

Cartwheels is the world's next best urban web/mobile app. By allowing consumers to rate and review mobile street vendors in major urban cities, we simultaneously ameliorate and popularize the mobile street vending city, create a feedback mechanism to ensure quality service, and drive consumers to experience the multi-cultural aspects of urban cities.

Right now, consumers in the mobile street vending space face three major problems. First, consumers don't know which carts have the best food. Second, they don't which carts are in violation of health codes and which are not. This is increasingly problematic as the average cart pays $433 due to health violations. Third, cart owners have little incentive to provide healthy food and reliable service because there is no accountability mechanism to keep carts in check.

Cartwheels solves these problems. First, Cartwheels allows consumers to rate and review carts throughout the city. This way, consumers know what to expect before they visit mobile street venders and can order the best food from the city's best mobile street vendors. Second, using Cartwheels allows consumers to know which carts are hygienic and which are not and allows users to report cart owners to the city for health violations. Third, users can read cart menus and, using that information, decide which carts to buy their breakfasts and lunches at.

Cartwheels serves as an accountability mechanism because cart owners know that they will receive poor reviews if they don't provide quality service. Our very existence improves the quality of service of mobile street vendors because owners know that their operations will be reviewed by consumers.

Cartwheels has an added benefit: we enhance communication between consumers and mobile street vendors. Cartwheels allows cart owners to register their carts and upload information about their carts and menus. Using the Stripe API, we allow cart owners to purchase ads on our website and communicate with consumers. This way, consumers and producers can stay in contact. Owners can drive traffic to their carts and consumers can review and discus their mobile street vending experiences.

Cartwheels was created using the City Data and Google Maps APIs. We query data from the City Data API in order to provide users with the names, addresses and registration numbers of carts throughout the city. We use the Google Maps API to provide users with directions to get to carts of their choosing.

Our mission is to provide an online space for users to rate and review mobile street vendors. We believe this will benefit consumers, immigrant cart owners, and all those who love great, cheap food. By networking mobile street vendors, we drive consumers in urban cities to explore the outdoors, eat different types of food, and explore the multi-cultural aspects of their city.

Built With

• city-data-api
• google-maps
• stripe
• web