Unifind : Mobile App for Lost and Found

[IAmRiteshKoushik]

Motivation

There is a an urgent requirement for a simple and unified solution across all academic-blocks, canteens and library for managing the lost and found articles.

1. Staff in each of the buildings can publish can publish posts of lost articles (with photo) and mention about proofs required to collect.
2. Students can stake claim on articles that are shown in the app, and then approach the collection zone with required proofs.

Architecture (Suggestions)

1. Image Uploads (Supabase File-Storage)
2. Serverless Backend (Supabase Edge Runtime)
3. Database (Supabase PostgreSQL)
4. Mobile application in React Native

Warning

Using Supabase puts us at a limit of being able to hold only 1GB worth of files and 500MB of database.
Alternative option is Cloudflare which allows 1,00,000 API calls per day to the serverless functions, offers SQLite (Cloudflare D2) and AWS S3-compatible storage (5GB) for free. The requirement to clean out images after each item has been claimed is necessary to save storage space.