Common Crave is an attempt to help groups decide on what to eat. A group leader will create the group, send an invite to the party where each user selects what type of food they're craving. If they have a particular restaurant in mind, there's an option to type in a restaurant name and the categories will be selected. After everyone's decided, a restaurant that is the most craved and equidistant to all members will be selected. This project is a two person project. The website utilizes a MERN stack with TailwindCSS for styling.

This project can be accessed at: https://commoncrave.com

This MERN web app was developed by me and my project partner in the span of about two months. Prior to this project, I had limited experience in Node.js, MongoDB, or TailwindCSS. But by working on this project, I've grown accustomed to them. This project was deployed on an AWS EC2 instance running Ubuntu using NginX for web serving and reverse-proxy. Overall I'm proud of how this project turned out and I hope people try it out to help them and their friends decide on their next place to eat!

During our time in the Hack Reactor program, my three colleagues and I created a final project called "OverRated." The concept behind this website was to combine the features of OkCupid with Yelp's rating system. The result was a platform where users could sign up and create an account, upload profile pictures (hosted on Amazon S3), find and connect with other users, send messages, and view and rate matches. While my main focus was on the backend development, where we utilized FastAPI to create our API endpoints, the entire project was built from scratch in just one month. We deployed the site using Gitlab Pages and hosted the database on Heroku's free plan. However, in November 2022, Heroku discontinued their free plan, which caused the site to malfunction. Perhaps there will be an opportunity to revisit and improve the project in the future.