Outside

Home and Place Chat
Places detail (for non-geofenced users and geofenced users)
"Emblems" are your avatars in Outside
Some initial wireframes, peep the card UI

Testflight

Outside is a native mobile app and thus currently only available via TestFlight (lame, I know). Please contact me with your Apple ID and I will add you to the Hackathon Judges stakeholders group.

Inspiration

A yearning to find something interesting to do.
Arriving some place in search of a good time and finding weird vibes instead.

What it does

Outside provides realtime geolocation based chats for Foursquare Places. Catch a vibe of a place before arriving, or maybe find someone to spend some time with while you're there.

How we built it

Outside is a native iOS application built by one person over the course of fourteen days or so.

Swift/UIKit
CoreLocation (Geolocation & Geofencing)
Next.js on Vercel (Serverless API)
Pusher (Pub/Sub)
MongoDB Atlas

Challenges we ran into

Lack of access to the Pilgrim SDK! I wrongly assumed as a contestant I'd have access. It would've helped tons with geofencing.
Picking the right things to work on at the right time. Time management, I guess. I spent a lot of time on stuff I ended up not needing (e.g., native auth vs Foursquare OAuth)
Taming my wild ambitions.
Envisioning a unique home screen UI for suggesting places. I tried numerous things: namely map markers and a Tinder-style card swipe thing, but I eventually scrapped them as I found those solutions to be kinda wack.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Finishing. Ultimately I really wish I could've spent more time working with other Places API fields, but building everything else around the API integration was pretty taxing.