Inspiration
An individual living in Canada wastes approximately 183 kilograms of solid food per year. This equates to $35 billion worth of food. A study that asked why so much food is wasted illustrated that about 57% thought that their food goes bad too quickly, while another 44% of people say the food is past the expiration date.
What it does
LetsEat is an assistant that comprises of the server, app and the google home mini that reminds users of food that is going to expire soon and encourages them to cook it in a meal before it goes bad.
How we built it
We used a variety of leading technologies including firebase for database and cloud functions and Google Assistant API with Dialogueflow. On the mobile side, we have the system of effortlessly uploading the receipts using Microsoft cognitive services optical character recognition (OCR). The Android app is writen using RxKotlin, RxAndroid, Retrofit on a MVP architecture.
Challenges we ran into
One of the biggest challenges that we ran into was fleshing out our idea. Every time we thought we solved an issue in our concept, another one appeared. We iterated over our system design, app design, Google Action conversation design, integration design, over and over again for around 6 hours into the event. During development, we faced the learning curve of Firebase Cloud Functions, setting up Google Actions using DialogueFlow, and setting up socket connections.
What we learned
We learned a lot more about how voice user interaction design worked.
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