Vicinux

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Inspiration

We wanted to build an app that would help everyday life. We found that many household items are left unused and get wasted. However, one man's trash is another man's treasure. Sharing resources among other community members could greatly reduce waste.

What it does

Vicinux builds a digital relationship between neighbors in a community. Users are grouped by zipcode and gain the ability to perform trades with each other. If a user sees a neighbor needs something that they have, that user can get in contact with their neighbor through chat and work out a trade deal. If the deal is not working, either trading user can abandon it and wait for someone else to fill the request. If the trade works out, a new chat opens and trade logistics can be determined.

How we built it

The full Vicinux stack was built on Ruby on Rails. We used semantic ui as our preferred css library.

Challenges we ran into

Working a big project as a 2 man team, we did not have enough time for deployment or API implementation, ActionCable, Javascript variations(Coffeescript, Typescript)

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We ended up with a cool UI, logo and intuitive design. We also managed to make a multichannel private chat using software developed for a singular global chat.