Demeter

Every day mountains of uneaten perishable food is wasted in USA. To be exact 133 billion pounds of food is thrown away in our country. We could use this food to share it with students and poor people.

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Inspiration

As a student, sometimes we need to compromise lunch with ramen cup noodles, money, and these problems faced by all the students. So, as a software engineer, I and my roommate thought of a solution to this problem and trying to develop a prototype for the application.

What it does

Demeter allows you to post your extra perishable food on the website and also allows you to perform a location-based search using zip code so you can look up the free food near you.

How we built it

We build scalable backend REST services in the flask framework with business logic to authenticate and authorize users. We later build an angular app to talk to the REST services and for the database we used cockroach DB(Postgres). The entire system is deployed on google cloud.

Challenges we ran into

  1. Developing UI/UX for the application.
  2. Network issues ## Accomplishments that we're proud of

What we learned

We learned to build and deploy an end-to-end scalable solution for a problem and work in a team.

What's next for Demeter

  1. Attach Image of food. (image recognition with a neural network)
  2. Use of google maps for direction. (for data clustering and location)
  3. User Notifications.
  4. DocuSign Esign.
  5. Claim the free food before you get there feature which will allow users to claim food by paying a minimal charge.
  6. IOS and Android Apps.

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