ajtadeo/simply-ebt

QWERhacks 2023 project created to provide a meal and budget planning service to low-income individuals who use the government funded EBT program to purchase food and groceries.

About SimplyEBT

QWERhacks

Originally EBTea, this project was originally created during QWERhacks 2023 where it won the title "Comeback Baby". It was developed by Alyssa Tadeo, Alex West, Tyler Tran, and Colleen Lam. The Devpost for this hackathon project is available at https://devpost.com/software/ebtea.

Features

This web application provides meal and budget planning services to low-income individuals who use the government funded EBT program to purchase food and groceries. Using SimplyEBT, users can:

• View their weekly meal plan and current budget on their dashboard
• Create and update their weekly meal plan using the edit page
• Input grocery expenses which is reflected in their total balance

Tech Stack

• React.js
  • Material UI
  • React Router
• Google Firebase
• GitHub

Future Plans

Due to the short time frame the project was originally developed under, we weren't able to complete our vision for SimplyEBT. In the future, we plan to implement the following features:

• EBT and SNAP friendly grocery store and restaurant locator
• Nutritional analysis tool of a user's grocery list and suggestions on how to improve

Using SimplyEBT

Local Hosting

1. git clone https://github.com/ajtadeo/simply-ebt.git
2. cd simply-ebt
3. npm i --force
4. npm start
5. Open http://localhost:3000 to view SimplyEBT in your browser.

Deploying to Firebase

1. cd simply-ebt
2. npm run build
3. firebase deploy