✨Inspiration✨
We discovered a problem which is trick-or-treaters aren’t able to find houses that participate in Halloween trick-or-treating, as a result they have to be content with lesser treats. Similarly, some homeowners spend time and effort buying sweets and decorating their house for Halloween, but nobody shows up for trick or treating. moretreatsfor.us attempts to solve this by providing users with a map application where they can register their house with just few clicks and get trick-or-treaters.
❓What it does❓
As a home-owner, moretreatsfor.us allows you to register on our site, place a jack-o-lantern (pin) on your house location, select a few options — like the convenient timings to receive trick-or-treaters, types of candy you offer (for purposes of dietary restrictions), whether you have any pets (to avoid scaring trick or treaters at your door) and more notes.
As a trick-or-treater, you can view the different houses that are trick-or-treating in your neighbourhood along with what timings they want to welcome you, whether they have any pets, whether their candy types suit your dietary restrictions etc. Trick-or-treaters can use our map to plan out their trick-or-treating route in advance and receive more treats.
🏗How we built it🏗
We used the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node) and Linode, Google Cloud, GoDaddy, GitPod and Canva to build moretreatsfor.us.
🟢Use Of Linode Cloud - https://cloud.linode.com/linodes/31410609/ 🟢
We utilized Linode for its hosting and data storage. Linode is one of the top IaaS providers and is incredibly easy to use. Besides, we had a great experience using Linode for a previous hack, and the free Linode credit from MLH for us to learn and build on Linode was the cherry on the cake! Linode is fast, flexible, and reliable, and we truly enjoyed using it, and we can say that Linode truly took our hack to the next level.
🟡Use Of Google Cloud🟡
We used Google Cloud Source Repositories, a Google Cloud product. This weekend, our objective was to build MoreTreatsForUs continuously at high velocity, and we needed to be able to automatically build, test, deploy, and debug our code changes, all within minutes, hence Google Cloud Source Repositories were a great choice for us.
The best part about Cloud Source Repositories is that it is integrated with other Google Cloud technologies, like Cloud Shell and the Cloud Shell Editor, and Google Cloud infrastructure is second to none. We also used Google Cloud Shell which let us access the command-line within our browsers which was very helpful since one of us was developing entirely on an iPad, giving us an easy way to build and deploy applications.
⚫️ Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry ⚫️
We were planning to register the “moretreatsfor.us” domain this weekend, as it reflects our vision to help trick-or-treaters get more treats on Halloween.
🚧Challenges we ran into🚧
- Not being able to recruit a backend developer until very late into the hackathon.
- All of us were new to the MERN stack.
- We couldn’t implement the map marking feature witch the backend.
- We couldn’t implement sign-up/login.
- Our team was spread out over different timezones.
🏆Accomplishments that we're proud of🏆
- We are proud of building a great project that will help trick-or-treaters and homeowners around the world, in a totally new technological stack, within a weekend’s worth of time.
- We are also proud of learning a lot of different skills this weekend.
📚What we learned📚
- We learnt full-stack development with MERN for the first time.
- We learnt cloud computing with Linode and Google Cloud.
- We learnt UI/UX and it’s importance while participating in the “Best Costume Hack” Category.
- and we also learnt a lot more from each other.
👻What's next for moretreatsfor.us👻
- Up next, we are developing a feature for planning routes and live-location based navigation built into moretreatsfor.us, that can also be shared with parents.
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