Inspiration
Last winter break, I was staying on campus with my friends and had very little to eat. We ran out of declining balance and we didn't want to spend a lot of money on food because we wanted to save money for traveling back home during summer. We had to figure out a way to budget. Hence, the idea for this app. The reason it is called Yogurt.ai is because we had to live off on yogurt for 3 whole weeks.
What it does
Using state of the art convex optimization technique, it calculates the maximum amount of food you can get from a restaurant with a given budget.
(Jk lol we used Knapsack algorithm)
How I built it
Our team of 4 built this using node.js, python, and an unhealthy amount of chips.
Challenges I ran into
Obtaining the optimal set of food item from the Knapsack algorithm + Un-uniform menu structure we have to scrape.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Overcome the above challenges and have a great logo.
What I learned
(1) How to survive a Hackathon (2) Work efficiently in team to output a product
What's next for Yogurt.ai
(1) Expand the list of restaurants (2) Include actual username when the bot greets the user (3) Make the bot smarter
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