Shark

Inspiration

Everyone knows how hard it is to find street parking in the busy city of San Francisco. As a group, we have all had experiences where we go into the city for a shopping trip, a stroll around Golden Gate park or even an hour-long job interview, but end up wasting the day looking for cheap parking. According to an Inrix study of 6,000 U.S. drivers in 10 American cities, the average San Franciscan driver spends 83 hours a year looking for parking. During this time, these drivers add to congestion and air pollution while wasting gas money. So we decided to make a solution to this problem!

What it does

Recognizing this problem, we have created a marketplace to connect drivers looking for parking spaces ("takers") with drivers leaving parking spaces ("givers"). The website is able to use the destination and preferences of a “taker” to match them with a nearby "giver". "Takers" pay for the convenience of knowing where the spots are while "givers" are compensated for waiting for the "taker" to arrive.

How we built it

Our website is built as a prototype in Sketch.

Challenges we ran into

Some challenges that we have faced: finding an effective way to lay out the step-by-step process for a user who is utilizing the website. Also, we struggled with the level of technical knowledge within our group.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of our prototype and the idea of our project because it benefits our group members as well as the city of San Francisco.

What we learned

We have learned how to work collaboratively with each other. By presenting different ideas for this project, we have been able to discuss the simulations for each outcome within the project so that we could build something successful.

What's next for Shark

We are confident that our idea is strong enough to be distributed in the city, so we will learn how to build the mobile app to make this idea into a reality.