Three Choices

Plates

A group food-ordering platform connecting people through convenient, affordable, and enjoyable meals. 

1. Market & size 
   • TAM
     • Nationwide students 
     • 18.9 million college students
   • SAM
     • Bay Area students: Northern California schools: Berkeley, SU, UCSF, USF, UCSC, Foothill College, De Anza College, Santa Clara University
   • SOM
     • Stanford students: over 16,000 degree-seeking students enrolled in bachelor’s, master’s, professional, and doctoral programs
       • ~7,645 undergraduate students
       • ~9,300 graduate students
2. Tech Stack
   • Frontend: React Native (CS47)
   • Backend:  Firebase 
   • Authentication: School Credentials (to sign up with your school email) OR email verification system
   • Mobile payment gateway
   • Recommendation system (can be based on interests)
3. BMC First Pass
   • Note: after our first pass of the BMC (pictured above), we continued to hone our target problem space and brainstorm potential solutions. See the other sections of this post for more details on our current project ideas.
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4. Early Ethical Challenges
   • Non-Stanford students using our platform  (addressed if we
   • Predators on college students
   • How to mitigate disposable packaging waste
   • Users’ personal information (ex: delivery address, CC info, email address/phone number)