Inspiration
So many people just keep their food in their fridge until it spoils, leading to our cities contributing massively to food wasting. A smart city should have a way of preventing this kind of outcome for it's citizens.
What it does
Our website puts on a user-based auction market your uneated, unopened food in the fridge which is close to spoil. The user-based auction market would refresh every now and then to let users bid and see how much a said article is bided for. Once a timer ends, the user who proposed the highest price will get to exchange cellphone numbers with the user selling the food, to conclude the business.
How we built it
We basically started from scratch and used angular (mix of typescript, css and html) to create and manage our website.
Challenges we ran into
We had no experience building client-server based applications before, we learned almost every single aspect of it on the spot. We were very distracted and tempted by the general incredible vibe that the organizers of Polyhacks Hackatown 2022 pulled off in the discord server. Just insane to see such a degree of animation, keep it up guys!
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We managed to design from scratch our website (i.e. without any template), whiche let us use our head more often than we thought we would. Our website is community-based. It strenghens the bonds of user from a given community, while also helping soothe on of cities' biggest problems : waste management.
What we learned
What's next for FoodAuctionner
Implementing more client-server based features like send e-mails along other miscellaneous improvements like creating a phone application would be key to the success of the website because it heavily relies on people interaction to work.
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