Inspiration
After seeing the BlackRock challenge and considering how recent market volatility has effected us on a personal level, we took inspiration from our own experiences buying fast food. Often times we saw that buying certain items from the menu individually was a better deal than the combos already on the menu. We realized that often times when we went on road trips, we wanted to save money and grab a quick bite to eat, but mostly save money. We wanted to create an application that could find us the cheapest meal and restaurant based on our appetite, wherever we go.
What it does
JunkJam is a website that scrapes fast food menu prices from the web and comparatively analyzes them to find the best deals.
How we built it
We first developed a web scraper in python that took data from fastfoodmenuprices.com then we cleaned and organized that data. After that, we developed a simple html website that we integrated with a python program that sorted and categorized the prices ------------Maddie-----------...
Challenges we ran into
At first it was difficult to find data sets that had the items that we needed. We wanted to avoid web scraping from the individual fast food websites because that process could've been long and tedious. Once we found a dataset that we thought was good enough for the purposes of our project, the main challenges we ran into were -------------Maddie------------------------...
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're mostly proud that we accomplished a project that we all were enthusiastic about as first-time hackers. It might not be the most advanced, but we used the skills we had and built upon them to construct this project.
What we learned
We had individual tasks to work on, but we all helped each other because most everything we did was relatively new to us. Some of the technical skills we learned were flask, html and css, and web scraping.
The most important thing we learned however, is how to work as a team. It was very difficult at first to get anything done when we all butted heads with each other. On top of that, we all got easily frustrated because we did things that were so new to us. At the end of the day though, we persevered and accomplished our goals.
What's next for JunkJam
We have a lot of good ideas that we wanted to build into JunkJam, but our limited experience and time prevented us from doing so. Again, not sure how to do a lot of this, but we would like add features that automatically update the price data, enable the user to select which state they are located in (so it can become more travel-friendly) and get accurate price data for their state -or- enabling location tracking so manual selection is not needed, and finally we would like to create mobile app versions of this project so it can be more travel-friendly.
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