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High Level Game Plan:

Here's the general game plan

How it will work

• Scope to a small group of people who know each other. User will have to invite others via email address.
• User who spots a parking spot will send out a "broadcast" to friends that a spot is available with location.
• If no friend "accepts" the pinged broadcast, then in 2 minutes the broadcast expires (and user may leave)
• If a friend accepts the ping, the other friends are notified.

Schema

Here is a basic database structure you can jump off from

{
  "user": {
    "id": {
      "group": "groupId"
    }
  },
  "group": {
    "id": {
      "users": [
        "userId",
        "userId"
      ]
    }
  },
  "invites": {
    "id": {
      "expires": 0,
      "groupid": "groupdid",
      "email": "email"
    }
  }
}

Order of events:

1. Create firebase account, play around with the API and just get some info into the db (test info)
2. Create a file, firebase.js (or something) that will connect to firebase and perform all the db functions that you need.

• also, figure out all the different ways the db must be queried or data should be pushed here

3. Create a script to handle the texting process
4. Flux based UI

• user authentication (ppl can sign in via facebook, etc)
• google map to display location of friend
• button to be like yeah I'm coming