Inspiration
As college students, we’ve often found ourselves waiting on our friends to order groceries to avoid paying the high delivery charges which can at times be nearly as expensive as the groceries themselves!
What it does
Grocery guru is a group ordering website where people can plan collective orders. The website tracks how much money remains before the delivery becomes free. It's also sustainable because it helps cut down unnecessary trips to the grocery store.
How we built it
Grocery Guru runs on HTML/CSS front-end and PHP for the server-side. We hosted the server using XAMPP, which integrates a MariaDB database.
Challenges we ran into
We effectively learned PHP from scratch and had forgotten much of the implementation for HTML and CSS. Furthermore, it was very difficult to work with the user entities on our website such that the server remembers the user's credentials.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud that our website is able to host user accounts and allows them to join and form new groups.
What we learned
As noted above, we had to learn PHP and how to query databases. Furthermore, we saw just how difficult full-stack development is.
What's next for Grocery Guru
For future implementation, we aim for the app to notify people in the cleared order via email to instruct them how to split costs. Furthermore, we are working towards implementing group management into Grocery Guru. Thank you for your time, and happy group shopping!
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