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Welcome Screen
Inspiration & What it does
We have created an app that makes organising group trips seamless. Our focus was to eliminate these problems that groups encounter, while planning a trip. We do it by a simple method: The Three Ws > Who, When, Where
WHO? Inviting Members > Rather than creating tedious chat groups where information gets lost easily. We have a Facebook integration which easily lets you invite your FB friends and let them input their date preferences.
WHEN? Coordinating free dates of every single person > This was the most complicated part for us. Usually there is a huge argument between the team members, as everybody has a different schedule and one person ultimately has to gathers every persons preferences and pick a suitable date. > We made this process much simpler, basically when a person enters a group they enter their preferred dates and the app automatically synchronises the members calendars and suggests a suitable date for all.
WHERE? Picking a suitable location > Here we implemented the Skyscanner API, which enables us to find the bet locations for the cheapest prices, which we then recommend to the group. And if they like it, the they can book it. All in three simple steps.
How we built it
The whole app uses Node.JS, Moment.JS, MongoDB, Facebook's API and Skyscanner's API
Challenges we ran into
Synchronising dates, Exchanging dates between the users along with the server and the app, Getting live data from the API,
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are the most proud of our app being able to handle several users calendars, and based on that help people with their holiday problems
What's next for TravelMatch
To improve this app we could add also suggestions for hotels, use live data as opposed to cached.
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