Inspiration
My inspiration was the RBC and the Telus challenge. I wanted to create something that not only would help students save for an emergency fund but also something that would help out people with mental health issues due to Covid-19. The uncertainty and closures during Covid-19 has left a lot of individuals without a job and unable to provide for their family. These issues are creating mental health issues such as depression and anxiety among society.
What it does
Gift-a-Meal aims to help individuals in a sustainable way by providing them with free meals from donors. The donors are organizations, restaurants, and other individuals. After a long day at a restaurant, a lot of good food gets disposed of off right before closing, to prevent the waste of food this website would help restaurants and organizations to list their leftover meals and food for pick-up. Recipients would be able to register, check pick-up times, and the number of free meals available at different restaurants. They could then register and pick-up the meal during the pick-up times.
How we built it
Gift-a-Meal was built using HTML, CSS, Javascript, JSON and PHP. The hosting was done with domain.com.
Challenges we ran into
As I was an individual hacker and was not able to find a team. It was definitely a challenge to take upon such a project individually without having someone else work on it with me. Along with that, I was having some trouble with the registration forms for the recipients and donors.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I'm proud of hosting the website, as I had never done that before. Along with that, I am also proud of being able to create a sustainable solution that can actually be turned into a business in the future.
What we learned
Through this experience I was able to learn how to host a website as well as make my very first hosted website using HTML, CSS, Javascript, JSON and PHP. I have worked with HTML, CSS, and Javascript individually before, however, this project made me learn how to use these programming languages collectively to build this website.
What's next for Gift-a-Meal
Gift-a-Meal would soon have an iOS and Android app coming out soon for easier access. Moreover, Gift-a-Meal currently only offers services for Ontario, we look forward to expanding in the near future.
Built With
- css
- domain.com
- html
- javascript
- json
- php
