FlashFood

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  User chooses their role in the app

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  Consumers will have several food options for the semi-local area. Users will be encouraged to start and continue using our app with coupons.

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  Restaurants have menu items available for delivery through our app

Inspiration

We were inspired by our personal experiences with restrictive college diets and prohibitively expensive dining hall and food delivery service prices.

What it does

FlashFood gives users (generally college students) options for food delivery at much lower prices than alternatives by pre-scheduling several orders and then batching them together so that one delivery person can deliver lots of food at once.

How we built it

We used React Native and Google Cloud to build a mobile app that consumers and delivery people can both use to achieve their goals.

Challenges we ran into

Since our project has certain similarities to existing apps like DoorDash and UberEats, we had to be very careful to differentiate our idea from their paradigm.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud to have developed an innovative idea that has the potential to help college students and fairly compensate its employees in a way that similar services do not. We are also proud of robustly integrating GCP into our app.

What we learned

We learned how to integrate GCP into our tech stack and about some of the details and statistics behind college student food consumption options.

What's next for FlashFood

Because of the low overhead required for our app to work (no restaurant fees), we hope to attract some interest and deploy it once it is finalized and thoroughly tested.

Built With

• django
• gmaps
• google-cloud
• google-cloud-build
• google-cloud-sql
• react-native