FoodIG

Overview

Yelp and Google Reviews are written by strangers that you cannot necessarily trust. Our solution is to create an application which creates a more personalized food-rating experience! The application connects you to your friends and allows you to see what/where your friends are eating via posts on a feed.

The UI will be half map (showing locations of the restaurants) / cards (reviews/photos of restaurants) on each person's account.

Goals

Essential Goals

1. Connect with other people also interested in trying new food by adding them as friends! You can comment on posts and chat with users(almost like a social media) Basically a https://letterboxd.com/ but for food haha
2. A map feature where you can drop “pins” for all the food places tried
3. Authentication features so that people can make accounts
4. Ability to rate/review/add photos of restaurants and make posts
5. A feed page where all of your friends posts will show up on one half of the screen, and map on the other half of the screen.

Stretch goals:

1. Public and private posts
2. Recap of the year
3. Discover feature for public profiles
   • Filters (type, price..)
4. Suggested restaurants
5. Link other social media account/phone number

Technical Specifications:

1. Database: MongoDB Database.
2. Backend: Node.js & Express.js to communicate with the frontend.
3. UI/ Frontend: React.
4. APIs:
   • People can query a restaurant or a cafe to add a pin on their map using Google Maps API.
   • There’s also an option to look for nearby places using this.
   • Authentication

Schema Diagram