A project for the University of Delaware HenHacks Hackathon 2023
by Simon Brugel, Brendan Lewis, & Paul Kearney
Brendan Lewis - Design, Frontend, Styling
Paul Kearney - Planning, Design, Frontend
Simon Brugel - Planning, Backend
Delaware is a very small state. Many people, even including First State residents, often gloss over the many interesting locations/things in the state. Encouraging groups of people to explore Delaware and record their journeys through an appealing/motivating web application is an idea that highly appealed to us. An app to allow people to do those two things, share their outings with friends, and even compete with them to see who can visit every place the fastest would achieve this goal. This can consequently create/strengthen friendships, help people in our community get to know one another, and travel together to many types of places. It can also increase tourism and help out local businesses/groups around these locations.
GO-DE is a full-stack, social-media like site where registered users are given an expansive list of interesting places in Delaware to visit, ranging from parks and beaches, to landmarks and historic sites. Users can mark these places as visited and comment on how their visit went/any thoughts and other remarks, and aim to visit every location that is on our list.
Users can view the profiles/activities of other users, whose profiles contain their recent activity and progress in visiting every location. They can even follow each other and get updates on friends' activity in a feed on the main page.
GO-DE is written in JavaScript, using React for the frontend and Express/Mongoose for the backend.
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// TODO: someone tell Simon to not be lazy and find a way to deploy it online