Go2EAT

Team PHP: Hilarious Programmers

Project Description

Have you ever been out with a group of friends, and nobody can confidently decide a place to eat for everyone? Introducing a crowdsourced (friendsourced) restaurant finder: Put a group of friends in a lobby together and have them vote on restaurants within the vicinity. Based on the votes, a restaurant will be selected, and now everyone can finally eat!

Who is it for?: Friends who want to go out to eat but do not know where.

What will it do?: Display restaurants based on proximity to the users and collect their preferences for said restaurants.

What type of data will it store?:

• Account system for logging in
• For each account will save some statistics (logins, restaurants voted yes/no, blacklisted restaurants)
• For each group/lobby will save some statistics (previously visited restaurants)

What will users be able to do with this data?:

• Log into the app
• Invite other users to a restaurant group and start a voting session
• View their individual and group statistics

What is some additional functionality you can add/remove based on time constraints?:

• Group and individual statistics seem to be the easiest to remove as it doesn't impact the MVP much.

Project Task Requirements

Minimal Requirements:

• Basic front end design of lobby and restaurant display
• Data storage of user accounts
• Decision making algorithm which returns a recommendation based on user preferences
• Using Google Maps Restaurant API to display nearby restaurants

Standard Requirements:

• Data storage of lobbies and user preferences
• Matching preferences with restaurant types to provide recommendations
• Features based on user preferences, e.g. blacklist restaurants, always display certain restaurants
• Allow users to log their experience/review and track it in a lobby
• Develop the front end more to make the page look seamless and visually appealing

Stretch Requirements:

• Personalized chart representing a user's restaurant type preferences based on their swipe history
• Create different types of decision-making algorithms that the user can choose between, e.g. randomized
• Cookie system that allows anyone to form/join a temporary lobby without having to make an account

Detailed Task Breakdown

Front End Task Breakdown

Important HTML pages:

Lobby Pages

• Create/Settings page
• Results page

  Individual User Pages:

• Individual selectors
• Enter lobby page
• Account info pages
• Restaurant info pages

General page styling

• One css file to keep design consistent across pages
• Styling file for each page for page-specific elements
  • May be combined with the general page css with unique ids? May create unnecessarily complex DOM

Javascript file - functions as necesary

Backend Task Breakdown

Google Maps API

• Establish link with Google Maps API
  • config files
  • Google API key
• Find all restaurants in specified radius from input location
• Get all data related to restaurants
  • Storing restaurant as object for future reference, i.e. restaurant preferences
• Filter restaurants by user parameters, i.e. type of food, cost

Protoypes

https://www.figma.com/file/L96PowD3EXPwk3o4PLkf5y/Untitled?node-id=2%3A18