drinkSearch

Inspiration

Inspired by Yelp and similar food review companies

What it does

Finds your location and tells you where the nearest alcohol/Boba/coffee/tea stores are.

How we built it

Relied on the Google Maps Places API and Maps API to get location and find stores that related to certain drinks within a small radius. As for user interface, we used the API to place a interactive map on our website and give the user a few filters for types of drink stores they wanted to know about

Challenges we ran into

Was difficult to get more details about the locations that the API returned. Furthermore, we tried to implement a search bar and allow users to search for places around their query, but we had issues with getting latitude/longitude of the query

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Using a specific part of the Places API named Nearby Search and being able to filter the results all within a specified radius

What we learned

Learned much about front-end development and how to connect it with back-end development, such as figuring out how to implement the results from the APIs onto our website

What's next for drinkSearch

drinkSearch will come with more features and more information about those stores, such as coordinate location, opening/closing hours, reviews, and maybe even secret menu items >:)