Inspiration
Whenever you go out with friends to eat, it always becomes a hassle to choose where to eat at. The goal of MyPick is that this is the friend that makes the decision nobody wants to make.
What it does
MyPick searches around you for restaurants that match the kind of food you want, how much you want to pay, and how far away. It then makes a choice and gives you that restaurant's info and even a link to it on Google Maps!
How We built it
MyPick is a client-side webapp programmed in JavaScript using React and Redux for creating components and managing our store. The UI library we are using is Material Design Lite, and we use the Google Places API to search for locations.
Challenges We ran into
The biggest issue we ran into was getting the Google Places API to work the way we wanted to. After spending all of Saturday and a little of Sunday on it, we managed to get it to work.
What I learned
We learned a lot about using React and Redux. We also had a challenging, yet rewarding experience getting to work with an API like Google Places that requires a lot of setup, but also is quite powerful.
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