Hope Harvest

Inspiration

As members of a lower income community, we wanted to help our community, and others like it, with access to food pantries and recipes.

What it does

It lists food pantries near the user, displays what each individual pantry is offering that day, and gives possible recipes with available foods. The admin page allows for the addition or deletion of food pantries and allows each pantry to edit what foods they are offering.

How we built it

We used Node.js to work on and troubleshoot the webpage locally on our computers. We'd commit and push every new feature so that we'd all have the latest version to work on, and we'd all see what we can add next.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into challenges coming up with ideas and settling on a feature list that is useful, but won't be too unrealistic for the time limit.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to finish a working version of the webpage with around 10 local food pantries.

What we learned

We learned a lot about team workflow, web development, and connecting front end and back end.

What's next for Hope Harvest

We are hoping to host this app on aws and allow people to access it. We will reach out to local food pantries to see if they will be willing to use the software to make the lives of the people who rely on the pantries a little easier.