Inspiration

What it does

It is a ‘Secret Santa’ app. Your profile contains your shipping address, interests, and gift ideas. You can choose who you would like to be as their Secret Santa—those within travel distance, from only their general location, interests, and gift ideas. Once you pick someone—and they too are paired up—you would then see their full shipping address and name; later, you would mark it within the app that your gift is shipped or on its way (or if you are hand delivering it in-person).

How I built it

I used the Google Cloud Identity Platform for the login system and authenticate user identities; radar.io’s geofencing and geocoding APIs to track the user’s data and location, and to know if one is within travel distance of others.

Challenges I ran into

  • Learning to use radar.io

Accomplishments that I’m proud of

What I learned

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