UniPantry

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Inspiration

One important aspect of open-source is the essence of community and that was the starting point that we hammered in on for this hackathon. Most of us are (broke) college students who live in dorms or apartments near the school we are studying at. We had to struggle with juggling horrendous transportation, braving unfamiliar places, and rent while studying for our future. One thing that kept on being a recurring problem is sustenance. Where to find affordable food? With this in mind, we wanted to create an OPEN-SOURCE application that helped fellow university students in tackling that problem.

What it does

UniPantry is a website that helps college students by acting as a platform, for other college students, in donating food for those who don’t have enough budget to eat. Students may opt into being

How we built it

The application was built with love using React and Tailwind CSS for the frontend. While, we used NodeJS and Express for the backend with CockroachDB being our go-to database option.

Challenges we ran into

How to work out the kinks and quirks of making sure to promote the safety and well-being of our customers as they are accepting food from, hopefully kind, strangers. We were also rusty as this is our first hackathon in such a long while and had to warm up the gears not only in development but also in time commitment and in communication.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that we were able to find a very common pain point in our lives and created an application that solves it.

What we learned

Coming off from a hackathon hiatus, we learned what works and what doesn’t. We learned what steps we can cut out to smoothen out the development process and what strategies we can integrate to have a more effective workflow.

What's next for UniPantry

For UniPantry, we hope to scale the project and have different chapters in other universities as well as engage with student communities to contribute to this project.