"It's not about the destination, it's about the Journey" – Us, 2024
Tired of taking the same boring route home everday? Feel like spicing things up?
Look no further than Cruel Maps!
Give us a destination and we guarantee that your journey will be exhilaratingly eerie.
Given a start and end point, the app then suggests a creepy route.
There are several components to the app. First, a user interface that receives inputs on the start and end destination.
Next, we connect the OpenAI api and send these inputs to generate routes. OpenAI returns us coordinates of stops along the route and with Google maps we attain the final route.
Because of OpenAI's recently updated documentation we found it hard to find the best and fastest way to connect our app to the OpenAI api. It was difficult to debug problems encountered as well as we did not know if it was a problem with having slightly outdated code or something else.
Fixing errors. This project idea is also probably the hundredth idea that we have explored during the Hackathon so we're happy to have settled on a fun idea that we like.
It is easier to ideate than execute.
Actually making it useful. Maybe coming up with scenic routes or culturally rich routes (routes that people actually want to go on).
Wanna try out Cruel Maps yourself? Make sure you have npm installed on your machine before you continue!
- Clone the repo
git clone <URL>- Install the packages needed for the project
npm install expo- Run the project
npx expo start- Follow the instructions to view the application on your preferred platform.
This project was ideated, coded, debugged and demo-ed in a span of 24 hours, as part of Hack'n'Roll 24.
Find our submission devpost (and team information) here.