Hyperion is a celestial theme produce marketplace built for a hackathon. The platform is designed to solve three problems at once:

• food waste for farms
• lost profit for farmers
• lack of access to fresh produce to low-income households.

Hyperion connects those two sides through a shared pickup model:

1. buyers order discounted farm produce
2. orders are grouped by food bank hub
3. sellers ship one combined batch to the food bank
4. the food bank prepares household pickup orders

The result is a marketplace where farmers recover value from surplus inventory and households get better access to healthy food.

• Deployed app: hackdart.vercel.app
• Devpost: Hyperion on Devpost

Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS for the frontend Express.js for backend MongoDB Atlas for the database JWT authentication Nodemailer/SMTP for email Stripe for payments (current hackathon flow uses a simplified demo checkout path)

hackdart/
  api/        Express API, Mongo models, auth, cart, checkout, fulfillment
  frontend/   Next.js app, themed UI, dashboards, marketplace, mission pages

• Landing page / ship navigation
• Login and registration
• Marketplace
• Cart and checkout
• Buyer dashboard and order tracking
• Seller dashboard, products, grouped batches, shipment flow
• Mission page

Deploy the frontend/ app to Vercel as a Next.js project.

Set:

NEXT_PUBLIC_API_BASE_URL=https://your-api-domain/api/v1

Deploy the api/ app separately to a Node host such as Render.

Important env vars in production:

• MONGODB_URI
• JWT_SECRET
• CLIENT_ORIGIN
• API_BASE_URL
• SMTP vars if you want real email sending

Typical judge/demo path:

1. register or login as a buyer
2. browse the marketplace
3. add products to cart
4. choose a pickup hub at checkout
5. place an order
6. login as a seller
7. open grouped seller batches
8. mark a batch as shipped
9. use the emailed ready-for-pickup link
10. verify the buyer sees ready for pickup