Free Food Locator

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  Free Food Locator

Inspiration

This app is a by-product of my love for free food. I am not good with cooking. I also love free food. On campus it is really hard to find events with free food, even though there are tons of them. So, I decided to develop an app that would help people like me who are broke and wants to get free food.

What it does

You can post details about events with free food. People can comment on them and upvote/downvote the posts. The more upvote you get, the higher your post appear. Also, if you are the post owner, collecting more upvotes means you will be the time first to be notified when there is a food nearby.

How I built it

I used React for front end, GraphQL for back end, MongoDB for data storage, and Heroku/Netlify for deployment.

Challenges I ran into

Everything! Everything was a challenge,because I had no idea to use them before. Lots of Googling!

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I am proud that I can say I have an app.

What I learned

I learned how starvation can lead someone to desperate solutions like this app :)

What's next for Free Food Hunter

I want to clean up the source code and add new features. It is so messy right now.

Built With

• graphql
• mongodb
• react