/walkable

Mobile-focused daily deal aggregator for "walkable" deals

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Walkable.me

Mobile-focused daily deal aggregator for "walkable" deals that grew out of a Networks class project as Univ Chicago CS Masters program. Developed during the peak of the daily deals fad in 2012.

App automatically updated the UI as the user explored a neighborhood, showing hyper-local deals as the user walked around a city.

Consists of an API scraper (/java) and web application (/walk_web).

/java (scrapers)

Fetched deal data from APIs of Groupon, LivingSocial, Yelp, and Gilt City then aggregated them in a DB

/walk_web (web app)

Padrino Framework (Sinatra-based Ruby) and MySQL database, with Backbone.js UI.

Unfortunately, due to collapse of the daily deals industry, no guarantee scrapers will work today.