Description as a Tweet:

It can be difficult to change old habits, but there are steps you can take to become healthier. Take charge of your health with Bloom!

Inspiration:

Making healthy lifestyle changes is easier said than done. Even when we're strongly motivated, adopting a new, healthy habit — or breaking an old, bad one — can be terribly difficult. Creating and maintaining healthy eating habits doesn’t have to be hard. If you start by incorporating small changes into your daily habits, you can make a big impact on your eating pattern and create lasting, healthy eating habits. Bloom wants to help you do just that!

What it does:

The Healthy Recipe Guide: A list of curated recipes based on your ingredients, calorie intake, etc
Lifestyle Tracker: Track your steps, calories, etc with the lifestyle tracker
The Healthy Bot: Ask the bot anything health related and it will answer your questions
Gym and Hospital Locator: Get a list of the nearest hospitals and gyms based on your location
Retrospective Tracker: Analyse your mood and let it all out in your daily journal
The Community Forum: Make Healthy Changes and share tips, achievements and advice!

How we built it:

Node.js
EJS
Google Cloud APIs
Socket.io
Google Dialog Flow
MongoDB
Spoonacular API

Technologies we used:

• HTML/CSS
• Javascript
• Node.js
• Express
• AI/Machine Learning

Challenges we ran into:

Initially, there were some problems while connecting our project to MongoDB Atlas.
Integrating third-party APIs due to lack of previous experience.
Setting roles and following a schedule.
Developing a Progressive Web Application
Hosting the application

Accomplishments we're proud of:

- Clean and elegant UI
- Clean readable and reusable code
- Utilised best coding practices
- Good team communication

What we've learned:

- We learned how to integrate MongoDB and use mongoose functionality for saving data to the database.
- We learned the ins and outs of using express.js and how the MVC works in express.
- Integrating third-party APIs with the application.
- Project management with Github

What's next:

Converting the web application to a native application as well is the future scope of our application. Having said that, our web application is fully web-responsive and supports all browsers.

Built with:

Node.js
EJS
Google Cloud APIs
Socket.io
Google Dialog Flow
MongoDB
Spoonacular API

Prizes we're going for:

• Best Software Hack
• Best Web Hack
• Best AI/ML Hack
• Best Venture Pitch
• Best Healthcare Hack
• Best Use of Google Cloud
• Best Domain Name from Domain.com

Snehal Dipak Thakur
Vidhi Mody
Vrushti Mody

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