Inspiration
My dad curently uses an Outlook callendar to sync his carpool which he uses to get to his workplace. The idea he suggested is to develop a web based application to handle this Kind of stuff in a more user friendly way,
What it does
The web-app helps to manage your carpool. It's still not supposed to help on finding new carpool members. The web-app focuses on managing your existing carpool to avoid, that people stop use the carpool, because the managing effort was too big. So it's not really on connecting new people, it's more on keep people connected and safe the einviroment.
How we built it
We used django and bootstrap so that it should run everywhere and could be used on any device
Challenges we ran into
The main problem is the algorithm to split the members of the car pool intelligently on to the cars. There are many parameters to take care off. Return-journey-cars need to be also outward-journey-cars. The drivers should also be selected in a fair way. The relation between beeing a driver and taking a ride should be equivalent on all carpool members
We wanted to use semantic for our frontend, but it caused scaling problems on mobile devices and we haven't got time to fix it at a Hackathon.
What we learned
Setting up a local Network can be hard ^^
What's next for DriveShare
Actually complete it ^^
