come-dine-with.us

Never dine alone; come dine with us!

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💡 Inspiration

No one likes to eat alone, and no one wants extra food (especially when it's homemade!) to go to waste—come-dine-with.us solves both problems in one!

⚙️ What it does

  • Cooked too much food and not sure what to do about it? Join the come-dine-with.us community! Create an account, then log in to view and make posts about sharing extra food with users nearby.
  • Filter the selections.

🛠 How we built it

  • We created a Flask app with the help of a few tutorials.
  • We used HTML and CSS for the user interface, which was developed with a mobile-first approach, and added Bootstrap styles.
  • We implemented login and register functionality through Flask extensions like SQL-Alchemy (along with SQLite), Flask-Migrate, Flask-Session and more.
  • Google Chatbot - We have a chatbot that was developed and hosted in google cloud. The bot takes questions about come-dine-with.us and the platform features.

🙅🏻‍♀️ Challenges we ran into

  • 4 passionate people from all around the world met up in Discord to work on this project. Naturally, the time zone difference and communication barrier made it hard to communicate efficiently.
  • A lot had to be learned in a very limited period of time, and we had very ambitious plans for this project (lots of features).
  • It was quite difficult to figure out how SQL-Alchemy and Flask-Migrate went together and to configure the database for our custom purposes.
  • CSS decided to be weird (as usual), especially with vertical centering.
  • Figuring out web development as we go.
  • Hosting the webpage, as none of us had any knowledge on this. Thankfully, Mr Google was there to save us.

📌 Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Creating a full-stack website with everyone contributing equal parts.
  • For most of us, learning entire languages and/or frameworks in less than 48 hours!
  • Being on the same page despite the time zone difference and minimal communication.

📚 What we learned

  • Teamwork makes the dreamwork, for sure. 🌈
  • Forming a database using SQLAlchemy and integrating it into our Python code.
  • Communication is key in any group work!

🗓 What's next for come-dine-with.us

  • Addition of a mapping API or feature to find places near you
  • Sign in using cloud accounts like Google, GitHub, etc.
  • Layer of extra security and verification methods to remove users with malicious intent.
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