Potluck

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Inspiration

Food is a hidden universal language amongst everybody. It allows for the bonding and connection of people, but most importantly, the ability to share cultural attributes with one another. That is the source of our inspiration: to bring different cultures from around the world together on one platform---a platform where people can feel united in the sharing of their favorite recipes while also celebrating what each culture is all about.

What it does

Potluck is a social platform specifically for users to post recipes from their culture to share with others. This platform's emphasis is uniting cultures in "one home." Users are able to post their favorite recipes, can interact with other recipes (liking, saving them for later, searching for specific recipes), and can even sort by different filers, allowing for a deeper insight into what each culture uniquely offers.

How we built it

We designed a Postgres database using the sqlalchemy library where we inserted recipes gathered by other participants of this hackathon. We built an API to bridge our front and back ends together and we built our frontend using React.

Challenges we ran into

Inserting images for the posts proved to be difficult because Postgres was unable to save image data, so we needed to use an alternative database to hold just the images needed for our project while our main Postgres database contained all of the other data.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Our language translation feature is something that we are proud to have as it allows for better connections between users around the world.

What we learned

Good dev ops practices greatly improve the development speed of the project by ensuring developer and service connectivity along with tracking dependencies.

What's next for Potluck

We are hoping that Potluck is able to grow into a real platform for people to use and share cuisine from their culture. Unity in the world is important, and we hope that this platform can provide that necessary next step to making each culture and individual feel celebrated.