The Dormganizer

Inspiration

Dorm rooms are small, and sometimes weirdly shaped. Sometimes, it can feel impossible to to find the perfect shelf for your one free corner or a futon that can slide under your bed. Plus, college students don't have hours to spend searching multiple websites for the one item that fits.

What it does

The user inputs what kind of furniture they're looking for along with the maximum height, width and depth that they want, and The Dormganizer will return a list of furniture that fits their specifications, along with a picture and a link.

How we built it

React.js for the frontend, Node.js with an express server for the backend.

Challenges we ran into

Over half of our team had never done a hackathon before, and none of us were familiar with any of the tools that we were using, so we were learning completely from scratch while building the project. It was also incredibly difficult to parse the data, especially in regards to getting the dimensions of the furniture and putting it into a format that we could filter with.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Learning totally new tools for development, and completing a project!

What we learned

How to use new development tools, and how to better deal with getting and manipulating a large amount of data from the internet.

What's next for The Dormganizer

Right now it's only pulling data from one website, so we need to expand the dataset so that it's truly a compiled list of furniture from multiple places. We also need to work on UI design, and implement sorting functionality for the list that's given to the user.