dinr

Unsure of what dining halls have to offer before using precious meal swipes? Meet Dinr, an app focused on finding the best dining hall for students at every particular meal based on student reviews.

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Inspiration

As students from Stanford, where menus are not released prior to dining time, we wanted to create a service that allows students to inform others about both the contents and quality of a dining hall at every meal.

What it does

Dinr gathers student reviews of every dining hall throughout every dining period and displays the positive ones (found through a positive key-word AI search) and negative ones (vice versa) on the home page. It displays the rest of the reviews under the dining halls' respective landing page. After every meal period has ended, the reviews are moved into a "review log(archive)" under the dining halls' respective landing page as well.

How we built it

With only one of us having minimal experience with HTML and CSS, we developed everything from the ground up. Dinr is still in its elementary stages as none of us new Javascript before CalHacks, and only just started learning it today. However, HTML and CSS was implemented to create functioning pages, animations, and scroll style. Dinr will continue to be worked on post CalHacks.

Challenges we ran into

We spent a very long time trying to get info on how to develop certain ideas rather than just actually trying to develop them. None of us new javascript which severely limited the speed and functionality of our idea. However, we started learning JS slowly but surely, and now we have some functions aided by Javascript. All of us plan on continuing to learn JS to further develop our site and our skills.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We came into CalHacks knowing that we were severe underdogs and scared that we wouldn't be able to submit anything at all. In fact, we didn't start coding until 8pm, as we were attending talks that we were too naive to understand. But, after leaving at the conclusion of another talk we didn't quite fathom, we decided to just sit our butts down and try to get something down. We had two ideas, and chose the one that we felt more confident implementing. We made some great new friends, and had a great time overall, which made CalHacks an overall success, and something none of us regret :).

What we learned

Time really flies when you A) don't know what you're doing and B) are coding new things with friends for the first time. (and we learned new HTML and CSS tricks, and began learning Javascript and terms such as server side and client side!)

What's next for dinr

Further functionality! All of us were super passionate about learning JS together today, and when we got a function to work it was one of the most rewarding feelings ever. We hope to be able to implement an AI algorithm into Dinr, we hope to create a functioning server response/archive in the near future. We hope to attempt to market this across Stanford in an attempt to improve student dining quality of life.

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