Team Rocket | What’s for Dinner?
Awards & Nominations
Team Rocket has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
The Challenge | What’s for Dinner?
Taste Buds
We created a new kind of dating app that saves the planet by reducing “leftover” food
A third of all food on Earth is thrown away, andthe vast majority of it comes from unsustainable sources.By the year 2050 1 in 3 people worldwide will bemalnourished; we need to reduce our food wastage.
So we asked ourselves how can we make reducing foodwastage interesting?
Research shows that bringing people together toshare food vastly reduces the impact of wasted leftovers. Unfortunately if you’re single, it’s impossibleto cook dinner and not generate leftovers.
So we invented Taste Buds, a dating app, thatsaves the planet by reducing leftover food.
The app splits users into the good cooks and thebad cooks. Users then swipe left and right until they findsomething they like.
The app also goes into detail about thesustainability of the meal, so that users can make informed decisions
When you’re happy, the app takes half the costof the ingredients from your PayPal account and half from your new friend’saccount, and automatically orders the exact ingredients from Coles supermarket,where the ingredients can easily be collected.
You can then message one another to hammer outthe details of your date and discus food sustainability with the help ofdiscussion cards about your meal.
The app also takes advantage of Coles affiliateprogram, which offers a 10% kickback for every purchase you make on theirbehalf.
Using this money, we can fund foodsustainability tech and feed citizens of third world countries with help fromUnicef.
Between the app and a number of extensions,Taste Buds has the power to improve the sustainability of our food sourcesaround the world.
Link to prototype (best viewed on mobile): https://mephysto.github.io/taste-buddy/
SpaceApps is a NASA incubator innovation program.