My Awesome HackNJIT Project

Inspiration

I wanted to build an awesome HackNJIT project!

What it does

"My Awesome HackNJIT Project" does awesome things

How I built it

I wrote a desktop app using Electron for the frontend, then on the backend used Node and express.js to call the Yelp and Twilio APIs. First, we call the Yelp API to get a list of restaurants to get alerts about. Then we use the Twilio API to send messages to the user based on the information they gave in the front-end!

Challenges I ran into

Yelp didn't want to give me API access until I said "pretty please with sugar on top".

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Begging for API access actually worked.

What I learned

Web apps are easier to write than Electron apps.

What's next for My Awesome HackNJIT Project

Mobile app?!