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Palm Beach Hackathon 2020 Entry

Matt, Cesar, and Rick have a fireside chat about a hackathon entry, going over the tech details, the stack, and general hackathon thoughts.

by Rick, Cesar, & Matt · 11/23/2020

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🌴 About the Palm Beach Tech Hackathon 2020 Entry 🏝

🤔 Why

52 million tons of food end up thrown away. 30-40% of food produced in the US, $218b worth, end up in the garbage. It's an odd, paradoxical world when businesses are paying to get rid of food while others are paying to acquire it so they can give it away. We think tech can help with the logistical problems.

🔍 What

We chose to build a broker system between the suppliers (e.g. grocery stores, restaurants, etc.) and those that want to acquire the food (NGO's, food banks, etc).

👾 How

This project uses the following stack to deliver on the proposed entry:

Go to the Github Repo

or run it yourself via Vercel: