UniRide

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Inspiration - One of our teammates was an out of state student coming back on a flight and saw another student wearing the same college merchandise, but was unsure and nervous to ask to split an Uber in the case that it was unsafe or he was not actually a student of the university. An app to make situations like this easier and more remote would be able to benefit numerous college students sharing this common struggle with transportation.

What it does

A new ride sharing app targeted toward college students - students are able to connect with others from the same organization to share rides, with a game-like reward system, filters, college syncing, and a larger social, interactive aspect than its current competitors like Uber, Lyft, and Hitch. t’s customized to connect to college or organizations through email addresses, and authenticates users through .edu email (whether some type of student or faculty).

How we built it

We developed the wireframed prototype of the app through Figma, and coded pages of the actual app through Swift and XCode.

Challenges we ran into

We didn't have much experience with Swift, so figuring out how to use it and create projects with it was a bit of a challenge at first!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of finishing the project, figuring out the maps aspect, and just in general, creating an app which had a premise we were happy with and becoming more familiar with Swift.

What we learned

We learned how to work with Swift and how app development works, as none of us had much experience with that before!

What's next for UniRide

We'd like to use firebase to authenticate user emails and systems, completely finish the Swift development of code, learn how to make the app more dynamic by coding effects, and market it among college students.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1awOCwJmpCzlrTG9LD95C2L0GLtQ3QA3S8KPrk7C-eMk/edit?usp=sharing