Inspiration
We were inspired to create this app when Dylan shared his experiences visiting Mexico. He was notified of many attractions almost unknown to the locals-- avoiding crowded, sweaty tourist traps and drastically improving his visit. We decided that everyone should have a chance to know about the world's hidden gems, and thus WanderLost was born.
What it does
WanderLost allows users to submit a form online of a recent place they visited. Using this, it will add a marker on the google map of the homepage, alerting that an attraction has been placed
How we built it
The FrontEnd is built with basic HTML/CSS. The backend is done with flask, which provides database support with sql-alchemy to avoid writing tedious SQL statements.
Challenges we ran into
One of the biggest curves was learning flask, and creating the mysql-alchemy database that takes in data from the user's form requests. The biggest challenge was adding the markers in google maps based on the coordinates saved in the database.
What we learned
Learning Flask, HTML, CSS, and Bootsrap. Overall, increasing our knowledge of developing web applications
What's next for Wanderlost
The biggest step is to make sure markers are added to the main page when a new location is submitted. Additonally, most of the pages will likely be restyled using bootstrap. There will also be a search and rating button that will allow users to search different locations and read their reviews.
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