nicholasbottone / hibearnation

A reviewing and information platform for dorms at Brown University.

hibearnation

Hibearnation is a web app for finding information about dorms at Brown University. Students can explore user-submitted reviews, photos, and other information about dorms, and can also submit their own reviews and photos. Find your new home at Brown! 🐻

This is a T3 Stack project built with Next.js, React, tRPC, Prisma, and PostgreSQL.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js
• PostgreSQL

Installation

You'll find a .env.example file in the root of the project. Copy this file and rename it to .env. Fill in the values for the environment variables.

Install the dependencies with npm install, then run the development server with npm run dev.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or pull request if you'd like to contribute. This project is licensed under the AGPL-3.0 License.

hibearnation's Issues

Add incentive for submitting reviews and photos

Since user-generated review and photo content is essential for the site to be useful, we need to make sure that we properly incentivize the submission of content.

Cannot submit multiple images without refreshing the page

I took multiple photos of my dorm and wanted to submit them all, but I must refresh the page every time I want to add another. Even after I click submit and the upload modal closes, when I reopen the modal to add another image, it says the image has been uploaded and won't let me add another. Seems to be a state issue. Could accidentally lead to duplicate image submissions.

Add informational/about page

If someone visits the site for the first time, it is not immediately clear exactly what the site's purpose is (you have to click around to find out it is a review site).

We currently have no privacy policy or terms page that says what we do with the user data, so that would be a priority to add.
(Reviews and photos show up anonymously on the site, but admins can see who submitted and can ban submissions that violate content policy.) (Submitting content gives hibearnation the license to display and share your submission, etc.)

• Explanation for "What is this?"
• Privacy policy
• Terms
• Meet the team (maybe)

Display dorm summary statistics parsed from spreadsheet

The spreadsheet is currently the only place to find a number of statistics about each dorm, including beds available, rooms available, etc. The site could parse this information from the spreadsheet and make it available on the dorm pages.

Is the spreadsheet the best place to parse from? Is there a better source for information where it is possible to get the information faster?

For example, many of these summary statistics could be included on the website:

Feature idea: Map to show dorm location

It'd be cool to display a map of the dorm's location under the "Location" section of the dorm's page.

This could either be an embed google map centered on the dorm or just a picture that shows the surrounding area. Would make it a bit easier to use the website as users wouldn't have to separately look up the location.