RescueBites

Inspiration

We were inspired to create this website after seeing the amount of food that gets thrown out by stores while still being in good condition. The quantity of food waste this creates, while there are people struggling to afford a meal everyday, is outrageous and we decided to take action by creating a site that would help solve these two issues at once.

What it does

This site allows stores to publish and announce excess food sales that will show up in the user's feed depending on the location they are in. Users can see which "bites" (sales) are available and order them online for pickup.

How we built it

We built this program using html and CSS to create a basic website that hosts the announcements of sales, a map to locate stores near your designated location by linking google maps to our site to display select stores. We built a navigation bar that moves through the site and provides searching for "bites" across.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into challenges when attempting to implement the navigation bar for the site as it kept shrinking due to problems with conflicting CSS code. We also ran into issues when implementing the map functionality of the map page as when clicking to select a store it would not show all locations in the vicinity, but rather one.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of organizing the navbar in the end and managing to properly code the design that we envisioned. We're also proud of the speed at which we managed to create multiple pages for the site as one of our team members who was delegated to working on said pages.

What we learned

We learned that to implement the required map functionality we wished to achieve we would have to locate the proper API that allows for that level of interactivity on the actual site, as what we worked on was not sufficient.

What's next for RescueBites

We will continue to work on this project once this event concludes and refine, as well as fix, the components of the site to get the proper framework up and running for future implementation.