Inspiration
As international students getting around and adapting to a new city and a completely new environment is quite difficult and something like this application would be ideal. The application is a directory of basically anything a tourist would be looking for. The target demographic would be tourists / new students attending a college in the area and residents who want information regarding amenities near their place of residence.This includes pharmacies, restaurants, fun tourist spots, etc.
What it does
Providing ease of access to the user and making it convenient for someone to have amenities one stop away is the main aim of this application.
How we built it
Technical stack that we went with was C#, with .Net Core and a MS SQL server (Local DB in Visual Studio)
Challenges we ran into
Cleaning the data for the database and Learning how to use .net core, making the UI user-friendly, and keeping it simple.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Successfully established a connection with the database and can make non-duplicate values as entries. Successfully created a form that accepts user input values which can be used to populate the DB with entries.
What we learned
Quite a lot can be done in 24 hours if tried and implementing ideas phase by phase is a good start to a sustainable solution as the idea can be worked and reworked on and improved as each phase goes by.
What's next for RochesterPages
The one we are submitting is called Phase 1, we have two more phases which consist of the following: Phase 2: Allow users to sign up/ login (including google logins). Allow users to mention tags for each place they add. Once a form is submitted it would need to go through the approval process. Once the data is verified by a trusted source( for eg: a college official in the Center for Campus Life, RIT) the data would become available in the DB Phase 3: Security / Accessibility - certain users will be allowed to import data into the database - This could be the admin or someone from the development team. The idea is that there are a lot of different repositories from where we can pull the data, clean it and store it in our database to make it more detailed. Allow users to rate a place and add comments on a place ->could be a general experience- this is a great place for buying winter boots or these stores give student discounts-something like that. Work on performance for the search query –as data increases so will the search time - need to carefully consider indexes or look at query performance.
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