Sublease Surfer

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Inspiration

With the proliferation of a competitive housing situation in Westwood locally and beyond UCLA, Sublease Surfer aims to alleviate this issue. We aim to connect customers and subletting endpoints with everyday members of the community, so that students can more easily find housing in a college environment!

What it does

Sublease Surfer is a web application developed to facilitate the apartment subleasing/subletting process for college students.

How we built it

Sublease Surfer was built using React for frontend, using APIs and packages, such as Google Maps, React Bootstrap, Material UI, Vanilla CSS, and Images Uploading. We used Google Firebase and Firestore for backend to store user profiles and listings in the database.

Challenges we ran into

Configuring the database and the steep learning curve over the time crunch of about 12 hours was a major challenge for us amateur programmers.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We made a web application in under 12 hours while learning so many new technologies! Friends were made along the way and an impact on college students made!

What we learned

We started from knowing nothing about web development to learning React, Google Firebase, and using Git for version control throughout the duration of our first Hack-a-Thon, ACM Hack's HOTH! The workshop videos and slides helped our team tremendously.

What's next for Sublease Surfer

We hope to publish Sublease Surfer using a permanent hosting service, such as Amazon AWS, Netlify, or Heroku for all UCLA and college students to use!

Demo Video and Project Folder

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U4Rg5n5Ri8a-he0hu_1KUBRF3rjiLKnH?usp=sharing

Built With

• css
• firebase
• firestore
• html
• javascript
• react