Inspiration
Our group is always encountering a situation where you are with a group of people and you end up spending a massive amount of time trying to find out where to go. We felt this was common enough situation that we
What it does
This website asks to take the users location and gets a random restaurant within a 10 mile radius of the user. It also gives the user some information about that restaurant.
How we built it
We used the Google Maps to retrieve the users location and the Google's Places API to retrieve information about restaurants in the area's and their information.
Challenges we ran into
Lots of issues with using Googles tools as they are not flexible with requests.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We all learned a little bit of javascript. We are proud that we got the google places api functioning with parameters.
What we learned
We learned so much because we were not familiar with javascript at all nor any previous experience using google's tools.
What's next for Restaurant Roulette
We hope to expand this into having better parameters and adding the option to add filters such dietary restriction and price.
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