Inspiration Inspired by the Keynote Speaker's words to make an impact on the world around us, our first order of business was to find a problem. We quickly found one that affected us: food affordability. On-campus food options were not only unaffordable, but had menu pricing schemes that were unreliable when searched up online. So, we came up with a platform to integrate it all.
What it does GoodEats is a community-based application that allows users to discover and share affordable food options near them. Under each restaurant, users can report the price that they paid for their menu items, their satisfaction levels, and share information about their experience.
How we built it We broke down our app into its most elementary levels, and created a framework around the way we wanted to address each problem. Following that, we consulted with our developmental mentor, who recommended that we incorporate AI to assist in the creation of our restaurants and the structure of the components. For the website, we also used FIGMA to develop a prototype website.
Challenges we ran into
- Complexity of our idea
- AI Prompting
- Website UI
What We Accomplished:
- Built a functional and intuitive interface
- Developed a complete business idea and application-
- Built a functional crowd-sourced food pricing platform for campus dining
Technical Achievements:
- Webiste Development
- Figma Protortype
- Dataset implementation and data rendering
What We Learned Adding more sophisticated features like filtering by category, allowing users to add additional comments and smart filtering of prices, expanding to users Vancouver-wide and across different campuses, add a map to make navigation easier and offers coupons and rewards to users with most reviews
What's Next Students should find deals, not struggle with navigation; price ranges and rankings are more useful than detailed descriptions; organizing data by both restaurant and item enables flexible viewing patterns; Price history needs to be easily accessible but not overwhelming; Need mechanisms to keep prices current (verification counts, freshness indicators)
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