Inspiration
Every day, millions go hungry due to lack of resources and poor distribution management. We aim to help solve this prevalent issue by making an application to connect restaurants with consumers in order to vend extra food goods at reduced market prices. By bundling the process in a secure, easy-to-use app, we hope that food suppliers will be able to decrease their food waste while also helping their surrounding communities.
What it does
We plan on having different account types for restaurants versus consumers. For restaurants, we would have an interface to facilitate the listing of unwanted foods (both bulk prep food and dishes), to view/modify published inventory, and to review successfully sold goods. For consumers, we would have an experience similar to UberEats where they view nearby restaurants, select the restaurant they want, see the food listing, add the food to a cart, and checkout through the app.
How we built it
Our team used Flutter to develop the front-end mobile app and Django/Postgresql for the backend.
Challenges we ran into
Our team chose to challenge ourselves by using an unfamiliar framework. Of course, this comes with a lot of issues such as long set-up time, learning the language, and troubleshooting foreign errors.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We made an app in a language we didn't know before that can talk with an API/database that was also new - all while incorporating TomTom's API.
What we learned
We learned how to make an app in Flutter, how to use Django as a backend, and how to use third-party APIs. Also, we learned that choosing a completely new framework for a hackathon might not be the smartest idea.
What's next for Sharity
We will all add this project to our backlog of projects to continue.
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