Moro

Framing the Problem

Have you ever had to travel to a new location early in the morning, only to struggle with tardiness, or always end up underdressing or overdressing for the weather or the event? When it's time for lunch, you have no idea where to go? Then, Moro got you!

Idea Explanation

Sarah has an event she's attending at 164 Oxford Street tomorrow morning, and she's never been there before. Sarah is a bit tardy, so she needs to know the exact time to wake up, shower and leave the house so she can get to the venue at least 20-30 minutes before the start of the event.

Sarah isn't the most stylish person, so she also needs some help with styling herself for the event. Sarah never checks the weather app, so when it rains, she's usually unprepared and gets drained or she dresses too warmly for the hot weather.

Lastly, there have been many times when Sarah had no clue where she was going to have lunch. So wouldn't it be nice if she could scan the area for a good restaurant before the event, and even pick what she's going to eat from the order list before time.

Moro does all of this in one app. Moro calculates the time for when you need to wake up, to when you need to get out of the house and keeps ringing alarms on your phone to remind you. It also helps plan your trip, whether you drive or use whatever means of public transportation.

Once you tell Moro what type of event it is, it recommends outfits for you, especially based on the weather. So it styles you based on the weather for the day.

Finally, Moro will automatically scan the area and recommend places you could go to eat and help you have an idea of what you can eat beforehand.

Implementation

Moro is built mainly with APIs because a lot of the features are dependent on making calls to various APIs. Here's a list of the API we could implement:

1. Travel and Time Planning: Citymapper API

2. Weather Forecasting: OpenWeatherMap API

3. Intelligence: OpenAI API ( for NLP)

4. Restaurant and Discovery: Yelp Fusion API

5. Notifications: Twilio Notify API or Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM)

The tools stack for Moro is:

1. React Native (cross-platform)

Challenges

One was the fact that the idea is highly dependent on the use of APIs, which isn't always free and for the scope of this hackathon, we couldn't implement them, but we worked with what we could.

Integrating Google Calendar events was one tough challenge we couldn't get past, unfortunately. We also wanted to simulate push notifications for the alerts for when to leave but that also stressed us a lot

Accomplishments

We accomplished highlighting the little problems that every individual goes through in their mundane tasks. A lot of people are tardy not because they want to, but because they struggle with disabilities like ADHD. So the fact that we were able to come up with an idea for people who struggle with this is an achievement on its own.

We also learnt about different shells and different setups and how to run code on them.

A few of us also learnt about Figma for the first time, and one person was able to implement something small in it.

Next Steps

Next steps would be to actually be able to go past a simple demo and implement APIs in the app that would allow all the features of Moro to shine.