Colin Williams

Fridge-Follower

Very much a work in progress, but a really cool idea my team and I created during a 48 hour Hackathon for mutual aid which we achieved third place with. The user can subscribe to local "community fridges" to get live updates on the contents and the needs of each fridge. The idea behind it came from the fact that there are many "food deserts" and a large population of New Orleans without transportation.

Fridge-Follower

Contributions:

Features that exist:

  • Communicated with Mapbox REST APIs to integrate fridge entities in a Map GUI with coordinates
  • Stored 17 community fridges into user and fridge schemas with PostgreSQL and Sequelize

Features to be implemented:

  • Create local strategies with Passport and Bcrypt for Authentication and user data encryption without needing external accounts like Gmail.
  • Deliver SMS notifications to users phone numbers with Fridge contents with the Twilio API
  • Implement reverse geo-coding and directions to fridge locations
  • Deploy with AWS
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