Random Restaurant Picker

For the college track

Inspiration

When friends take over an hour to decide on what to eat for dinner.

What it does

Randomly picks a restaurant in the given location for you!

How we built it

We learned and used Flutter for the first time to build this app. We had to create a middleman server which connected to Yelp's GraphQL API to get the total number of restaurants in the area and then randomly pick a restaurant based off that.

Challenges we ran into

Initial Flutter setup
Figuring out the Flutter GraphQL package, getting it to work, and then finally converting everything to a Python middleman
Designing the user interface
CORS
Asynchronous programming

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting something working within a few hours!

What we learned

Dart
Flutter
GraphQL
CORS
Asynchronous programming
Google Maps API
Yelp API

What's next for Random Restaurant Picker

A better project name
Fix the CORS issue on the Google Places suggestions page
Code refactor (could be broken down into more components and made more modular, more comments, less stuff hardcoded, etc.)
A better user interface
Some filters the user can specify to narrow down search results