CityBuddy

Gemini Chat feature
Home Screen
Emergency Services
Profile Settings
Roommate Finder
Starting Sign-up Form
Explore by Category of User interest (uses Gemini to filter out)
Google Map with Current User Location (From Settings)

Inspiration

Whether you're coming from another country, province, or city, starting over someplace new can be scary. You don't know anyone or where anything is. Sometimes, all you need is a buddy We wanted to design something to help newcomers navigate their new home from finding important services to meeting new people. All in one place for ease of use.

What it does

CityBuddy provides users with recommendations, access to services, and ways to meet people. When they log in it allows them to select their interests, budget restrictions, and if they have any roommate preferences. This allows CityBuddy to provide them with relevant and tailored information.

How we built it

CityBuddy uses React Native, TypeScript, Google Gemini API and Google Maps API

Challenges we ran into

Members of our team were new to using either React Native, Typescript, APIs, or all three. We overcame these by leaning on each others prior experiences, asking for help when we got stuck, and asking Google Gemini for assistance.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of being able to complete a project within the time frame, with most of our brainstormed features implemented!

What we learned

We learned that while vibe coding is a good starting part, it can't replace human programming. We also learned that when we work together we can accomplish anything!

What's next for CityBuddy?

In the future we'd like to fine-tune the AI, update the UI, and provide more features related to mental-health, language learning classes, and ways to meet up with non-roommates