Inspiration
Which means that we might skip through breakfast or even lunch. At WPI, most freshmen are enrolled in a meal plan, and most of them also have extra swipes at the end of the week. Personally, I usually have 1 or 2 extra meal swipes, and most of the time, they are wasted.
Remember all the swipes you left unused freshman year? We are turning them into something useful!
What it does
GoSwipes connects freshmen who have extra meal swipes at the end of the week to any upperclassmen who would like a convenient meal on campus.
We have created a platform that connects two parties. Once you log into your GoSwipes account, there are two tabs for the buyer and sellers Screen recording?
First, we have the “seller” side of the application. These are the underclassmen who have extra meal swipes for the day and are looking to sell them away. They can list a “post” of an offer for a meal swipe, for Breakfast, Lunch, or Dinner, and how much money they want
Then there are the upperclassmen who are looking for meal swipes. They browse the catalog of different offers for different prices of meal swipes and look for ones that suit them price wise. To assist them with this, they can sort by price and filter for certain locations. By the law of supply and demand, the market should reach equilibrium.
Once the buyer selects a “post” that they would like to buy, this sends information to the seller about the buyer and prompts them to email each other.
How we built it
This project uses several cutting edge technologies. The website uses a Node.js front-end for both the buyer and seller. It has an initial login page which is password protected
Next is the server that manages the transactions. When a seller wants to sell something, they send a POST request to our Flask server. Then, the buyers will refresh and see this new product. Once the buyer clicks and confirms for a seller, another request is made to the server that takes down that original post and sends to the seller that their product has been bought. Our future plan is to make this into an actual website, but for now it is a development server
Finally, we use carefully photoshopped graphics to make a compelling user interface
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