GutBuddy

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💡INSPIRATION💡

Our teammate Logan recently found out he has lactose intolerant and after digging deeper, we found out that a majority of people suffer from digestive disorders. In fact, its estimated that 70% of all people have digestive disorders, and HALF of all digestive disorders go undiagnosed. Indigestion and digestive health is such a big issue that $136billion was spent on gastrointestinal disease in 2019.

We interviewed 68 hackers just to see how wide spread the problem was!

We found that 79% of hackers feel uneasy from food at least once a month! alt text We found that 69% of hackers wonder why their stomach hurts! We found that 84% of hackers care about what they eat and how it affects their body!

Check out the survey!

⚙️WHAT IT DOES⚙️

GutBuddy keeps track of the users' diet and helps recognize foods in their diet that make you feel uneasy and predicts whether or not you may have a digestive disorder

🛠️HOW WE BUILT IT🛠️

UI/UX: Created a mock up in Figma

FE: react app connected to backend with expressJS and NodeJS, utilized react-router-dom, axios and fuzzy-search and react-webcam

BE: mongodb for EVERYTHING

ML: decision-making algorithm to help recognize foods in the diet that are bad, computer vision to capture and store meals AND also give nutritional data to user

With code 👀😊

⏭️WHAT'S NEXT FOR GutBuddy⏭️

Everyone eat better and cares for their body :D

😣 CHALLENGES WE RAN INTO😣

It was Logan's FIRST hackathon, Kurt's*FIRST* and also Michael's FIRST so there was a learning curve to a lot of stuff especially since we were building an entire app
Twilio?? HUGEEEEE PAIN, we couldn't figure out how to get different a Canadian phone number to work for outgoing sms and also have our own custom messages for a little while. After a couple hours of reading documentation, we got it working with an US phone!
disjoined datasets
authentication with mongodb was a super hard challenge because we created disjoined datasets
limitations on compute performance because of mongodb
bad wifi 💀
no electricity ⚡
not enough food
integrating python with javascript
launching the site with vercel/digital ocean was super janky because Vercel was running a yarn installation EVEN THOUGH WE'RE USING NPM
integrating twilio and tying it into our database

🎉ACCOMPLISHMENTS WE ARE PROUD OF🎉

Learning git and mongodb was HUGE! Super important technologies in a lot of projects
Getting Twilio to work properly (its our first time)
First time designing a supportive app that's ✨functional AND pretty ✨without a dedicated ui/ux designer
USER AUTHENTICATION WORKS!! ( つ•̀ω•́)つ
Using so many tools, languages and frameworks at once, and making them work together :D
ALL OF IT 😎😎😎
creating a full stack MERN app within 24 hours
Submitting on time (I hope? 😬) <--- yeah we did 😎