Inspiration
Our inspiration comes from a story of a women in a domestic violence situation calling 911 and ordering a pizza. Because of her creativity and the quick thinking of the 911 operator who figured out what was going on, she was able to get out of a bad situation. We wanted to take that to a mass audience to help stop the spread of domestic violence.
What it does
Our app allows abused persons to discretely "order a pizza", by copying the logos, colors and phone number/email of nearby partner pizza locations. By ordering a pizza, the person schedules a volunteer, who registers through a second admin app to come pick them up and get them out of that situation.
How I built it
It is built with a Spring Boot backend, connected to MongoDB. We didn't use any authentication as a service, so we built out the oauth functionality from scratch. The two apps are written in React Native.
Challenges I ran into
Being able to get the two apps out in a 12 hour time limit was definitely the biggest challenge although we're proud to say that we did.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We managed to get an entire back-end along with two fully developed React Native mobile applications out within 12 hours.
What I learned
We learned a great deal about splitting up tasks between our members and also about integration of a full-stack mobile application.
What's next for Universal Pizza
We would like to roll out and see a true partnership grow between pizza vendors and our application. We truly see Universal Pizza changing lives.
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