Inspiration:
College students spend lots of money of food, so we wanted to develop an app that lets students help each other by leaving reviews of the various food options on campus and help others determine what's worth spending their money on!
What It Does:
Users can sign in with their Moravian University account and create a username to leave reviews with. They can select food from the menus of 6 different food vendors on campus and leave a review with a rating of 1-5.
How It Was Built:
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript were used for the UI, while a MySQL database is used to store user accounts, food data, and review information. The images are stored in an S3 bucket from while the links to each image or stored in the database. Google OAUTH is used for ensuring only Moravian students are allowed to sign-in.
Challenges We Ran Into:
Formatting was our biggest struggle, as we frequently referred to our UI mockups and had trouble replicating it exactly as we wanted.
Accomplishments:
Laying the foundations and functionality of the vendor/food selection and review, successful set-up of the database with working images that correspond to each food item, successful implementation of a user login/logout feature.
What We Learned:
This hackathon was definitely a great experience in terms of learning how to configure certain Amazon features like S3 and figuring out a process of how to slowly implement every (or most) feature desired within a short timespan.
What's Next:
A filtering feature to filter foods by rating, prices, calories, etc... a "keyword" feature that lets users attribute certain descriptions to certain foods (ex: "PRO: Good price", "CON: Too many calories").
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