FreeBites: The Free Food Whisperer

Inspiration

Hungry college students on a budget + free pizza flyers = the ultimate epiphany. Why should anyone have to hunt for free food when free food can hunt for you?

What it does

What if you never missed out on free food that matched your preferences and was close to your location? FreeBites acts like your personal food finder: it sniffs out free food events that match your distance limits.

How we built it

We built FreeBites using Expo and React Native for the front end, allowing us to achieve cross-platform compatibility. The back end uses Firebase for authentication, and database management, ensuring fast and reliable performance. To implement location-based services, we integrated Google Maps API, enabling users to filter food options by proximity.

Challenges we ran into

Offering Cross-Platform Compatibility: Offering cross-platform compatibility was one of the most difficult challenge we faced. This was also the first some of the people on our team worked with mobile, and it was one of those ex

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Seamless cross-platform functionality: Successfully developed an app that performs equally well on Android and iOS devices, thanks to Expo and React Native.