Episode 14- Lunch Place Chooser ft. Suman

In this episode of Idea to Done, we talk with Suman about how he made his Lunch Place Chooser web app. Suman is a software engineer at Codelation and a fellow nerd.

J/E: Hey Everyone, I'm Josh and I'm Erick and I’m Suman

Erick: Today's Idea is: What the heck are we going to do for lunch? I am here with one of our other co-nerds and first guest on the show Suman. Suman, tell us about yourself:

Suman: I am me. 

Josh: Everyone, Suman is a software engineer here at Codelation. A noticeable introvert who might use up his word allowance on this podcast.

Erick: Each week you and I will go grab a lunch somewhere. Each week we have the dreaded, “where do you want to eat?” question. You decided to just create a web app to help us answer that question. Can you talk a little bit about this lunch place chooser?

Suman: So we never know where to go for lunch. So I built the app using Google Maps and Places API, Ruby on Rails, and Javascript

Josh: How does it work, what is the experience of using it, do i have to enter my zip code or?

Suman: When you first load the app, it tries to access your browser location. If it can’t you can enter your current location.

Josh: So a location can be any address??

Suman: Yes

Erick: We used this thing on Monday, and it was basically amazing. It took us to a pretty great Indian restaurant, that I never would have thought of without the app.

Josh: Suman you built an app at work to help you go on breaks?

Suman: No I built it on the weekend

Erick: Good answer good answer! As a giant nerd. I requested you make the app be Yoda, and talk like him. I’m a big fan of that fact that you made this all happen. How did you do that?

Suman: There was a website that translated english into yoda speak.

J: So you had some phrases translated into yoda, what’s next clingon?

E: I freaking love this. It worked amazing! I really like that the force is helping us pick where to go to lunch.

J: That force is google’s places api.

E: Don’t be a downer. We can talk about terrifying data on a different episode. I am actually looking forward to the next time that I have no idea on where to go for lunch. Thank you Suman for walking 20 feet to help us record an episode. 

S: You’re welcome

J: Thank you for listening to this episode, if you know a startup that could use advice have them subscribe and leave a review on iTunes.