Rate My Campus Food
BetaA mobile-first social platform where students rate campus food through swipe-based discovery, AI-powered nutrition tracking, and a personalized feed.
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Pizza Kitchen · Dinner
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Asian Wok · Lunch
Kale Caesar
Fresh Greens · Lunch
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What I built
Rate My Campus Food is a social platform for college students to discover and rate dining hall food. The core interaction is a Tinder-style swipe stack where items are ranked using a Wilson lower bound confidence score and personalized through a 7-factor algorithm mixing taste affinity, trending signals, and exploration.
The platform includes AI-powered nutrition tracking — students photograph their plate and the system identifies items and estimates macros using Gemini 2.0 Flash with Claude Haiku as fallback. TDEE targets use the Mifflin-St Jeor equation with sex-aware adjustments. Beyond nutrition, there's a full social layer: Instagram-style 24-hour stories, threaded comments, friend check-ins with live location status, gamification with 13 badge types and weekly leaderboards, and push notifications with per-type toggles and quiet hours.
The backend enforces row-level security on all user data. A Playwright scraper with stealth pulls menus and hours from 12 campus dining locations, enriched with USDA nutrition data. The app has a full content moderation pipeline, rate limiting via Upstash Redis, and ships with Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and DMCA compliance.