GomiGotchi – Frontend (UWB Hacks 2025)

This repository contains the frontend prototype for GomiGotchi, a gamified litter-cleanup mobile app created during UWB Hacks 2025 (theme: Save the World).

📖 Project Overview

GomiGotchi combines game design with environmental action to encourage people to pick up litter in public.

• Users are paired with a digital pet (“GomiGotchi”) that stays happy and fed through real-world trash pickups.
• The frontend tracks cleanup activity and provides interactive feedback through maps and a pet dashboard.
• Designed to make picking up litter in public feel rewarding and approachable.

⚙️ Technologies Used

• React – frontend framework
• Leaflet.js – mapping and geolocation features
• Tailwind CSS – styling and UI design
• Framer Motion – animations and interactions

📝 Features (Prototype)

• Map view for tracking cleanup activity
• Pet dashboard that reflects user actions
• Basic gamification elements (feeding the pet through litter cleanup)
• Integration-ready frontend for backend data

🔑 Key Skills Demonstrated

• Frontend development with React and modern JS libraries
• Map integration and geolocation using Leaflet.js
• UI/UX design with Tailwind CSS and Framer Motion
• Rapid prototyping in a hackathon environment
• Team collaboration and product ideation

📌 Note

This repo contains the frontend prototype only. The project was built collaboratively in a 5-person team as part of a 36-hour hackathon, and is not production-ready (yet).
Backend can be found at https://github.com/O-xix/GomiGotchi_BackEnd_ExpressAPI.