WhereWeEatin'

Create a new room by entering a group name and number of restaurants to vote on.
Join a room by entering the room number.
Suggest restaurants and view other group members's submissions. Find restaurants in your area using Google Maps in the same page!
Vote for your favorite restaurant.
View the winning restaurant and the number of votes each restaurant received.

Inspiration

Going out to grab a meal with friends is always a good time until you can't agree on one place. We have collectively experienced this multiple times, and some solutions that arose included creating Google docs to suggest and vote on restaurants. However, this proved to be too cumbersome to set up and non-intuitive. We realized that this is a common issue we faced, and creating a dedicated application just for this would solve this problem.

What it does

WhereWeEatin' is a web application that allows for the creation of a room and url that can be shared to a group. Each group member can input suggestions for restaurants. If none come to mind, restaurants can be explored with Google Maps right in the suggestions page! After all suggestions have been made, each group member can vote for his or her top pick, and the winning restaurant is displayed on the following page, along with the number of votes each restaurant received.

How we built it

We created a Github repository for our project. Using Django, we fleshed out the back-end and database functionality. We employed Bootstrap for most of the styling of our front-end, with jQuery for the scripting. We then deployed our app using Google Cloud Services.

Technologies used:

python
django
google cloud services
jquery
bootstrap
github
javascript
html

Challenges we ran into

One of the biggest challenges was learning the ropes with Django. We had the ideas of what we wanted to do, but we struggled a bit with how to get things set up and working correctly with the technology. However, we persevered and managed to realize a final product!