GauchoRide

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  Driver Form

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  Rider Form

Inspiration

One of the main concerns for college students is transportation. It would be easier if UCSB students could just share rides in an easy and quick manner.

What it does

Drivers can post their route and riders can find drivers. Riders send a request to the driver and the driver accepts or denies.

How we built it

We started off with brainstorming ideas for the first couple of hours after the start of the hackathon. Then we decided on the technologies we would use for this project and began coding until the final submission.

Challenges we ran into

One of the biggest challenges we ran into was trying to establish a connection between the frontend and backend that worked. We had to make sure we hosted the backend properly and the endpoints received the exact information it needed.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of getting both the frontend and backend working in the small amount of time

What we learned

We learned more about how APIs work, more specifically, Google's Cloud APIs and authentication. We also had more practice with React, SQL and making a rest API.

What's next for GauchoRide

There is still a lot of features that we did not have time to implement. We would like to have a more fleshed out system for verifying riders and confirmation. Furthermore, we would like to maybe expand the project to more than just rides, for example, meetups.

Built With

• express.js
• google-cloud-sql
• google-gmail-oauth
• javascript
• node.js
• react