Singapore’s hawker culture has made it in UNESCO. The effects of Covid-19 have greatly affected our local hawker businesses. With the surge of online deliveries, older hawkers who are non tech-savvy are put at a disadvantage. Dabao!LAH aims to preserve these businesses by promoting their food to our locals.
Challenges
• First time using React Native to build a cross platform app
• Lack of hawkers data (requires web scraping from facebook community group)
Demostration
Data Flow
Roadmap of DaBao!Lah
Flow of the App
Rough Flowchart and Planning
Hi-Def Wireframe
Using Whimsical to Collaborate
Epilogue
It was a fun yet stressful 72 hours hackathon. Although I have enough manpower for this, it still felt challenging and pressurising for me. 72 hours was definitely not enough time for the team to build a solid mobile app. Furthermore, this was my first time using react native to build an app. We did not have much time to plan for the entire flow and it created so much trouble during the late phase of development. From then on, I learnt to plan efficiently by prototyping the app with Figma and working one feature at a time.
