Trivia Odyssey

Uses geolocation to track nearest landmarks and famous tourist locations around you and shows ordered tile view of things you can do. A simple and fun location based landmark/tourist attraction identificaiton app, which adds fun little trivia quiz to this location, so you learn and explore at the same time.

Webstack Architecture

🔑 Key Feature

Auth0 Login to save favourite locations

Simple Tile view of nearest landmarks

Works on mobile devices as well

Hover over the tile to get interesting trivia

If you want to go there, just click the card to get directions:

🛠 Skills

Cyclic hosting, amazon-dynamodb, auth0, cyclic, express.js , node.js, React

📃 Challenges we ran into

• Fitting all aspects of a fullstack app into play
• Finding a good use for user authentication
• Setting up express api and cyclic hosting took most of our time
• Fleshing out the trivia section with more questions

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Everyone of our team members worked on technologies we've never used before, Learnt new things at a rapid pace

• Created a dataset of tourist attractions and landmarks around rochester (our current location)
• Track the users current live location and show a list of cards containing tourist attractions around them
• Clicking on that tourist attraction allows the user to get the direction to that place and a fun trivia question, which lets them learn something new about it.
• Powered by Auth0 to enable user login and logout

What we learned

DynamoDB, Hosting on Cyclic, Express Api calls, React/tailwindcss , node.js, Auth0 api

What's next for Trivia Odyssey

• Creating databases for more locations by contacting local guides
• Scaling the trivia side of things
• Travel planning by introducing bookmarks feature