LendIt is a web application developed using the Django framework. Through lend it one can find people around who wish to lend out things. One can also add things he/she is willing to lend out for others to borrow.
It is designed to facilitate sharing of mostly reusable commodities such as books, movies or games.
With easy onboarding using Facebook login, one can easily put up items they want to lend with photos and specify the condition of the book and duration they want to lend for. Searching is made equally easy by using Autocomplete. A map shows you lenders near your location.
Requesting a book sends a notification to the lender after which they can either accept or decline it. In case they choose to accept, they can exchange their contact details and set up a meeting. An OTP exchange mechanism helps prevent fraud. Rating based mechanism to promote more trustable users.
With this application we aim to create a community where people with similar interests meet and share their belongings. We aim to launch this at an institute level soon. :)
A beta version of the website can be found over here.
Features to be:
- Integrate a mechanism to keep account of caution money.
- Create an upvote/downvote algorithm.
- UI Revamp
- User based addition of books
- Add push notifications
If you are here because of KWoC or otherwise, do head over to our gitter chat room to get in touch. Look at CONTRIBUTING.md for more information on how to contribute.