Sus Foods

We strive to help you eliminate your food waste by keeping track of the expiration dates on your food.

Description

As university students, dining is a collaborative experience. Food is stored in shared spaces within our beloved kitchen appliances. Oftentimes, the line between sharing a fridge and “sharing” food becomes blurred. When food isn’t being stolen, it is usually rotting. This was the inspiration behind our project, Sus Foods.

Sus Foods is a web app that combats the problem of food waste. It does this by providing the functionality of tracking your perishables. Forgotten food adds to a significant sustainability problem today of food waste. We wanted our app to be focused on sustainability which is where the name comes from.

We learned so much during these past ~20 hours. First, we gained a significant amount of experience with frameworks and languages that we were not familiar with. Going into this hackathon only one of our teammates, Josh, was proficient in css and html, but now all of us have some basic knowledge and abilities with those languages. Our teammate Tiana was able to create a logo for our app which can be seen throughout our demo. The fork's name is Forkalina and we thought she would make a cute and memorable mascot for our web app. The framework we used was react and only our teammate, Ayon, had worked with React before. It was a struggle for everyone to figure out how to use React at points. We ended up going to the React workshop and our teammate Erick asked mentors for help. Through collaboration, we were able to work through problems we got stuck with. We worked well as a team and all learned a lot from each other.

Since it was everyone's first hackathon we all experienced feelings of competition and strict time constraints which were new. Because of this, our ambitions ended up being a bit out of reach for our experience level with the time given. Our initial vision of this webApp had a shopping list functionality, was sorted from what foods would expire the fastest, and could connect to a user's google calendars for reminders. Regardless we still had a lot of fun and are proud of what we made, and hope to be memorable :D

GitHub LInk

To run: npm start