We want a more sustainable way for individuals to travel from point A to point B, by sharing a ride.
It allows users to post their routes to a carpool request board for other users (drivers) to see and potentially accept. We decided that it should be aimed at students because of security reasons and to build a more tight-knit user base to begin with.
We brainstormed to create our Figma prototype and then started building the front-end. Once we were done that we started on the backend connections.
Connecting the backend and the frontend
We wanted to add a chat system so that the users can communicate within the app. Allow users to filter the requests page based on the current location area.
Front-end:
- React
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
Back-end:
- Node JS
- Express
- MongoDB
APIs:
- Google Maps API
- Auth0
