WorldEats

Inspiration

Our love for food and wish for better information and restaurants reservations.

What it does

It searches for all of the restaurants in opentable's current API by a user inputted city. The restaurants will then be projected on top of Wrldz' 3-d rendering of the world. Users can click on restaurants to find where they are located and create reservations.

How we built it

Half of the team worked on OpenTable's API to parse through all of the information. The other half worked on Wrldz' API and we merged the two in phases. Since OpenTable's API was a bit challenging at the beginning we worked at the OpenTable's API part of the team's pace.

Challenges we ran into

First and foremost, only one person on our team had experience with Javascript and HTML. So, we first had to teach ourselves how to use the languages. Then, one of our members ran into issues with creating the webserver. Meanwhile, we were struggling to figure out a way to recieve authorization tokens and authenticate for access to OpenTable's api. On the wrldz end, the API made it impossible to create interactable buttons on popups due to the nature of writing HTML within strings inside javascript.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of first learning Javascript and HTML in a few hours, projecting OpenTable's UI onto the wrldz map, and finding creative solutions to the issues we ran into during this hackathon.

What we learned

We learned

What's next for WorldEats

Filtering through different lens's to see different search options such as Dietary restrictions, proximity, popularity, unpopularity, etc. Successfully booking reservations.

Built With

• apache
• html
• javascript
• microsoft-visual-c++
• opentable
• sublime-text
• wrld