Team BLOSTpresentTicketDash
TicketDash Demo Video
More Cinema For Less
Inspired by live auctioning apps such as Seatfrog, which are based on the idea of being able to sell otherwise unsold seats for less and encouraging people back to the cinema.
TicketDash is a mobile app providing live auctioning for cinema tickets, available on both iOS and Android. It is a platform where businesses can list events and seats for auction, while users can bid on last-minute tickets for those seats in real time, on the go.
The Team
Sarah Harvey
Oskars Otdeļnijs
Laurie Hillier
Tiah Hind
Ben Sutherland
Technologies
We used: React Native, expo, Socket.io, PostgreSQL
We chose React Native as we’d all previously worked with React and felt it would allow is to transition into mobile development more easily. Expo was chosen as it allows easier cross-platform development and has a lot of good documentation. Socket.IO was chosen as it is a fast and lightweight library for real time communication.
We chose PostgreSQL for the backend because after learning it on the course we we felt comfortable using it to structure our data, especially alongside the learning curve of the other new technologies we were using.
Challenges Faced
Push notifications were a challenge to implement, especially across
different devices
Getting used to all working on GitHub and dealing with merge conflicts