Pothole Detector

Expanded system information
Homepage for dashboard
Mobile App with data
System information on dashboard
Map for potholes
Accessability options for dashboard
Map view on Mobile app

Inspiration

Hitting potholes sucks, and can cost a lot of money. An app like this is relatively low cost investment in terms of infrastructure and dev time (as evident by us getting a prototype working for the hackathon)

What it does

You have the mobile app, it detects if you've hit a pothole and then tells our server. The server has an API which can be viewed thru a dashboard

How we built it

We started by white boarding our tech stack and how our data is gonna flow, and we put each team member onto an app which was separate enough to be completely in their own repos. Each team member used Claude/ChatGPT to assist in rapid development. After the core apps were in a good state, we started discussing connecting the apps, talking about how our data would be structured and passed between each other.

Challenges we ran into

It was really ambitious, lots of content to cover, lots of moving parts. Each person basically had a whole app to develop on their own.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We have a working app that is usable by anyone with the expo-go application, and the backend server is fully containerized running on my home machine and accessible by anyone

What we learned

Lots of new technologies were studied, we got some new experiences or refreshers. Maybe focusing on a smaller core application and then hand waving the back-end stuff might be more appropriate for a hackathon in the future.