PantryPulse: Ending Food Waste with Real-Time Community Coordination 🥫🧡

This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Community The Community Mutual aid organizers, local volunteers, and neighbors working together to fight food insecurity. Many cities rely on "Community Fridges" or "Free Little Pantries" to provide barrier-free access to food. However, there is a massive coordination problem. Donors often drop off perishable food at fridges that are already full, leading to waste. Conversely, people in need often walk miles to a location only to find it completely empty. The community needs a way to broadcast the real-time status of these resources. What I Built I built PantryPulse , a mobile-first web app that acts as a real-time health monitor for local mutual aid pantries. Anyone walking past a community fridge can simply open the app and tap "Empty," "Low," or "Stocked." This crowdsourced data instantly updates the dashboard, allowing donors to route their groceries to the locations that need them most urgently, and saving those in need from wast