Inspiration
NearBuy is an iOS application that lets you discover businesses and deals nearby just by pointing your smartphone. It helps everyday people find hidden treasures, and helps business owners attract customers with time and location-sensitive deals.
How it works
Server side
Our server is written in Flask, hosted on Digital Ocean, with a MongoDB database.
Web App
The web front end is built in Polymer, a modular web components library.
iOS App
We use geolocation, positioning, and mapping data to pass a spatial representation of nearby locations to our iOS written in Swift.
Challenges I ran into
We tried to use tesseract to do OCR on Company logos to match locations, but the library had a hard time scanning non-standard fonts.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We have the full stack experience, a web app admin interface for business owners, and a fully functioning mobile app for consumers, and we still had time to do work with tesseract and other web service integrations
What I learned
It pays off to get the deployment worked out first.
What's next for NearBuy
More integrations! We'll be adding support for buying movie tickets when you're near a theatre, (the API requires waiting for a key) and checking in on Swarm!
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