New project: MealTicket

I started working on a new personal project today called MealTicket. The goal of the project is to help arrange group meals (at restaurants) by providing a simple voting structure similar to Google Moderator. I am using this as my first real attempt to work with Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and plan on documenting the process.

Today I created an initial design of the user interface in photoshop. I only worked on it for a couple of hours since it's a holiday and I wanted to enjoy some time outside. There are numerous features that I have to create which may, or may not be, evident from the mock up:

• Support single day and re-occuring events
• Event invite since events will be private (maybe add public events eventually)
• Ability to mark a restaurant as visited with the option to not re-appear for X days, months, or ever
• Integration with Google Calendar
• Possible Yelp integration
• Resturant suggestions based on your history (and maybe based on other users)

I am comptemplating a rating system where each member could rate, and potentially comment, on the visit. If a particular user does not rate the restaurant well then it will not show up in suggestions. This could also improve the suggestion for other users but may be a conflict with the Yelp integration.