Inspiration

When I was in Washington DC two years ago, my family and I had a really hard time getting an Uber as they were all very far away or cost way too much. However, when we used Lyft, we got a match almost immediately. This made me wonder if there was any way to see compare both services without having to have both apps.

What it does

Displays traditional modes of transport as well as prices for various tiers of ridesharing services. Also has a chat agent which can handle finding cheap places to go.

How we built it

Built it using vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS.

Challenges we ran into

One of the biggest challenges we had was that there aren't very many freely available APIs available for querying such data. Furthermore, what data did exist was not easily accessible.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're really proud of how the UI turned out as it looks extremely professional while remaining usable.

What we learned

We learned a lot about APIs and authentication for them (including how complex they are to use!).

What's next for StealthCommute

  • Moving API calls to the backend as they're currently all on the frontend.
  • Adding voice functionality to the AI assistant.
  • Further improving the UI to support place names instead of just coordinates.
  • Directly calling for rideshares on the dashboard.
    • This is possible, but not feasible in the short timespan.

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