Trottr

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Inspiration

A common challenge for many people these days is finding fun things that they can do locally with others. Whether it be going on a date or just chilling with friends, hangout planning is a generally a daunting task with all the choices — or the lack thereof. Our goal is to create something to get rid of this difficulty.

What it does

Trottr plans your entire trip out for you and gives you the choice of doing what interests you! It takes into account any restrictions or input you may have to provide the best travel experience locally.

How we built it

We used the Google maps API to determine possible destinations and Cohere's generative LLM to create a valid schedule for your day out. Finally, the flask web server brings these technologies together to give the user an enjoyable experience.

Challenges we ran into

Some challenges that we ran into were that there were many possible different ways of implementing features — each with tradeoffs that we had to choose between. Working with Cohere also meant that we had to format our queries in certain ways in order to to receive the answers that we really wanted. The google maps API presented a challenge in the form of picking between different endpoints and data. Lastly, integrating everything together took the longest to get correct.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were proud of being able to create a tool that helps fix a problem that we actually experience in our own lives, and integrate it into an interactive web app.

What we learned

We learned more about structuring queries for large language models and using different APIs together (some for the first time) efficiently without getting rate limited.