Inventory.com

Long lines at food banks are a harsh reality for these families short on both time and money. With Inventory.com, volunteers work more efficiently in keeping inventory and reduce lines.

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Inspiration

Last summer, my friend, and another one of the hackathon participants, Nicole Zhang, was welcomed into a community of volunteers at a local food bank. Her role as a volunteer was to take paper forms filled by clients and retrieve the items requested from the food bank's shelves. She described it as a chaotic experience, where there were lines of people waiting in lines to get their groceries for the month. The food bank she worked at was vastly under-resourced, so there were practically zero organizational systems in place to manage the stock on the shelves. She wanted to help out with their inventory organizational issues, so she gave me the idea to make a website, where inventory can be easily adjusted and shared within a group.

What it does

The site contains text boxes, where users can input the items they have in stock and increment or decrement the number of units in stock, giving a centrally-accessible inventory. It is also going to be able to create personalized links for easy shareability.

How we built it

This project’s design was made in google slides and the demo was made in vscode.

Challenges we ran into

Under the time constraints of the hackathon, I had to forgo a lot of features to meet the deadline.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I was able to re-learn how to use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript And I was able to do it in VSCode

What we learned

I was able to learn how to make new things in HTML, CSS, and Javascript, and I also learned that 24 hours is not a lot, and that I need to budget my time better next time I come to a hackathon.

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