nouex/ride-board

BYU/BYUI Ride Board App

Problem

The ride board has a lot of active users offering and asking for rides for a very good price. I use it all the time. The problem is, to find a ride you have to scroll past every post and identify if it suits your needs. Such needs might be origin, destination, leave date, etc. This is tedious.

Solution

It would be nice to be able to filter and sort through posts instantly. This way all you have to do is compare the rides that already suit your needs.

UX

Display a feed that lists posts depending on the user filter options. There are two modes, offering or asking, and each have slightly different options. Provide a link to the original post on FB to allow the users to message each other and book a ride. Note: the app will not handle messaging or booking of rides. Leave that to FB.

Filter Options

• offering

  • origin
  • destination
  • leave date
  • return date
  • price for one-way
  • price for two-way
  • no. of seats available

• asking

  • origin
  • destination
  • leave date
  • return date
  • no. of seats to occupy

Authorization

• the app should be available to anyone that has access to the FB group

Authentication

• TBD

Prerequisites

• make sure the FB API gives us access to
  1. a private group (assuming an admin is willing to grant us access)
  2. a machine-friendly representation of text with background images
  3. the following post info
  • date posted
  • date updated
  • link to the original post on fb

NLP Parser

Example Posts

1. Determine if offering or asking? Offering

2. Extract data.

  {
    origin: "Salt Lake",
    destination: "Rexburg",
    leaveDate: "Saturday April 04",
    returnDate: null,
    priceOneWay: null,
    priceTwoWay: null,
    seatsAvailable: 3
  }

1. Determine if offering or asking? Asking

2. Extract data.

  {
    origin: "Utah",
    destination: "Rexburg",
    leaveDate: "this week",
    returnDate: null,
    seatsNeeded: 2
  }