Zot N' Munch

Inspiration

Have you ever been a victim of gatekeeping? It sucks, doesn't it? Luckily for you, look no further! Meet Zot N' Munch, a website where users can upload image URLs of food and find resturaunts that serve that food.

What it does

Users will input an image URL and a location if desired, (the location will default to Irvine, CA if not inputted). Our website will then process and identify the food in the image, and return a list of resturaunts where that food is served!

How we built it

We used Spoonacular's machine learning food API to identify and return the type of food in the image. After that, the result will be passed into the Yelp API, where it will generate a list of restaurants within the vicinity of the inputted location that serve the food category provided.

Challenges we ran into

This was everybody's first Hack-a-thon, and we all went in with minimal coding experience. It definitely took a lot of researching, reading, and interpreting the API documents in order to figure out how to call them. We were also introduced to many new development tools such as Insomnia, Flask, React, along with new languages like HTML and CSS. We spent the most amount of time on setting up a server and trying to connect functions and files from our individual computers into one big host server.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

coding in new languages for the first time
using new software
using api
seeing creations come to life

What we learned

We learned so many things including...

the magic of APIs and Insomnia
how to build a website and make it look nice
new coding languages/dev tools we've never even heard of before!
how to connect our code to a server and front-end interface

What's next for Zot N' Munch

Currently, the Spoonacular API has very limited categories of food and is not always accurate. We also hope to expand to being able to upload an image from a user's files to make it more accessible to those who can't provide an image URL. We're also hoping to implement a way to gather a user's location coordinates from Google Maps API to find places to eat near them with their desired food.