Boro: Premium Rental Marketplace

A borrowing platform that helps people enjoy higher cost experiences without committing to long term purchases!

📖 About

This project was built for SpurHacks 2025 for the Startup track.

The idea is pretty simple - why buy expensive stuff you'll only use once or twice? Our platform lets you borrow everything from power tools and cameras to gaming setups and party equipment from people in your community. It's like Airbnb but for literally anything you need!

We added some cool AI features that automatically generate listings when you upload photos and help you find exactly what you're looking for with smart search.

😎 The Team (go qtma!)

Kayne Lee - developer Chloe Houvardas - developer Simon Risk - developer Nicole Steiner - business strategist

🚀 Features

• Browse Listings: Find cool stuff to borrow near you
• Smart Search: Just type what you need and our AI figures out what you're looking for
• Auto Listing Creation: Take a pic of your item and AI writes the whole listing for you (pretty neat!)
• Booking System: Reserve items for specific dates
• User Profiles: Keep track of your stuff and what you're borrowing
• Live Availability: See when items are free to borrow
• Clean UI: Looks good on mobile and desktop

🛠️ Tech Stack

We used some pretty cool tech for this project:

Frontend

• React 18 with TypeScript - for building the UI
• Vite - super fast development server
• Tailwind CSS - makes styling way easier
• shadcn/ui - pre-built components that look amazing
• React Router - handles page navigation
• React Query - fetches data from our API
• React Hook Form - handles all the forms

Backend

• FastAPI (Python) - our main API server
• Supabase - handles our database and file storage
• OpenAI GPT-4 Vision - the AI that looks at photos and generates listings
• Pydantic - makes sure our data is formatted correctly

Built With

• fastapi
• react
• supabase
• vite