Inspiration
World hunger is often something we associate with starving people in third world countries, and is nudged off as being unapproachable in our day to day lives; yet over 41 million people struggle with hunger right here in the US. Additionally, the US has continued on a trend of increasing food waste, with statistics showing upwards of 40% of our produce and other foodstuffs going to waste annually.
What it does
Nomz makes addressing world hunger more accessible by connecting those with leftovers to those in need. Nomz aims to de-stigmitize hunger by making an accessible platform (webapp) that allows people to donate or request food in a much more casual interaction compared to going to a shelter or food bank. Our webapp operates in a similar manner to Uber, in that a map is used to locate the closest donors/receivers. A donation qualifies as any meal or food item providing 1 serving or more. This could mean anything from the leftovers of a large event, to a single person's leftovers after a night eating out, to a coffee shop's day-old muffins. As an MVP, our platform would simply function as a means to connect people virtually, however we plan to implement a service of drivers who transport the food within a city, and eventually work with Amazon to enable a shipping component for non-perishables.
How I built it
The front end was built using Google APIs and Bootstrap. We built the backend using Node.js and Express with MongoDB on Heroku
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