Inspiration
Essentially our entire group were comprised of students who came from immigrant parents and we wanted to brainstorm a solution into how we could make their lives easier. We agreed on RecipesUnited as we strongly envisioned a site that could store all your traditional and generational recipes. With physical copies of a recipe, there is the possibility to lose the entire recipe or you may even misplace it in an event where you are moving house. Moving your recipes is also beneficial since if you have multiple family members wanting a specific recipe, you are able to directly share them the link to your recipe instead of writing out each recipe for EACH family member that would like a copy of your recipe.
What it does
Our product stores recipes in a simple-to-use UI and they store the recipes in a digital queue card so that it resembles how recipes are written on paper. You can have all your recipes within one search bar & you are able to easily edit, manage and delete from your array of personal recipes. If you are interested in trying a different style for dinner, we have a community-based system where people from all over the world can upload their recipe in the Search Recipes to. We also threw in a fun little food randomizer for those who can not make their mind on what they want to cook for dinner. You just hit select in the "random recipe" tab and you can find yourself a plethora of options through there. You can set it as randomizing from everything or randomize from your own recipes to give people the option of what they want to do for their dinner.
How we built it
For our back-end stack, we utilized node.js, express, & Google Cloud API. For our front-end stack, we utilized jQuery, Bootstrap, HTML & CSS and more.
Challenges we ran into
We really found a hard time trying to utilize the Google API to work, but we were grateful to have the mentorship really help us through. However the biggest bottleneck to our project was our experience. For the most part, we were learning as we were coding which slowed the process a little bit; yet time is the most crucial part of the hackathon as well. Just some minor other obstacles, like the files to work together or the formatting of our website was a little hard as well.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud that we were able to incorporate Google Cloud API after being thrilled to watch it being used during the HTN Google API Workshop. We knew it would take a while for us to truly understand the basics of the API, but once we got past that we were smooth sailing until the next road block hit.
What we learned
Stick to one idea and ride it throughout the hackathon.
What's next for Recipes United
THe founders may try to work on it on the side after HTN. We would have more time to polish up the website as well as have time to add more features that would draw clients onto our website.
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