About

ApartMate was a project with the goal of offering a Tinder-like experience for apartment hunting. I worked on this project with two other team members from my university’s ACM chapter, Arturo Corona (@arty-aj) and Devin Madrigal (@devinom).

Features

• Usage of Google as an authentication provider
• Users may set their university and a range from that university for which they would like to search for apartments.

Tech Stack

Frontend

• React as the main UI framework.
• DaisyUI as a predefined and concise component layer on top of TailwindCSS.

Backend

• Firebase is used, giving a BaaS (Backend as a Service) for:
  • User wuthentication and account management
  • Account information / preferences storage on Firestore
  • Firebase function written in python to call an external API.
• An API which scrapes Apartments.com for apartments within a given radius from a given location.

Deployment

• This project was deployed to Google Cloud Platform, but has since been taken down.

Team Member Involvement

Me (@sk3p7ic)

I designed and built the frontend for the application, making calls to Firebase as needed.

Arturo Corona (@arty-aj)

Wrote the code to consume the Apartments.com scraper API.

Devin Madrigal (@devinom)

Configured the Firebase and GCP backends, as well as managed deployment to those backends.