[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":99},["ShallowReactive",2],{"work:\u002Fwork\u002Ffood-on-the-streets":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"contributors":78,"description":69,"draft":83,"extension":84,"featured":82,"joint":83,"live":85,"meta":86,"navigation":82,"order":87,"outcome":88,"path":89,"period":90,"repo":91,"seo":92,"stack":93,"stem":97,"__hash__":98},"work\u002Fwork\u002Ffood-on-the-streets.md","Food On The Streets",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":68},"minimark",[9,14,18,22,25,29,32,42,45,54,58,61,65],[10,11,13],"h2",{"id":12},"context","Context",[15,16,17],"p",{},"Food On The Streets is a web platform for both food truck owners and food\ntruck consumers. The platform allows food trucks to manage their schedule\nmenu and make those items publically available to any visitor of the platform.",[10,19,21],{"id":20},"the-problem","The problem",[15,23,24],{},"Locally, our food truck scene has grown tremendously over a handful of years.\nWhat didn't grow, however, was the management. For the consumer, the only way\nto know what food trucks were going to be running and where on any particular\nday was Facebook. This was either through a 'Food Truck Tracker' Facebook group\nor by visiting specific food truck Facebook pages. For the food truck owner, this\nmeans they have to post their schedule on their page, to a group admin, and\nmaybe even to the group themselves. Menus and schedules get lost in the ocean of\nthe Facebook feed algorithm and competing posts from other owners and consumers\nalike.",[10,26,28],{"id":27},"what-i-did","What I did",[15,30,31],{},"The primary objective was to allow any user to quickly identify what food trucks\nwere operating near them, so they could make decision without having to look all\nover the place. The feed needed to be easy to read (and filter if you're craving\nsomething specific) and give the user all the information they needed to make a\ndecision.",[33,34,39],"figure",{":height":35,":width":36,"alt":37,"src":38},"1572","2406","Food On The Streets homepage with one food truck schedule item","\u002Fwork\u002Fimages\u002FFoodOnTheStreets_home.png",[15,40,41],{},"The first thing a user sees when visiting the platform",[15,43,44],{},"What good is a feed of food truck schedules if there are no schedules to view?\nThe owners needed an easy way to set up their schedule, one time, and have it\ninstantly publish out to users.",[33,46,51],{":height":47,":width":48,"alt":49,"src":50},"1336","2334","Food On The Streets owner dashboard","\u002Fwork\u002Fimages\u002FFoodOnTheStreets_dashboard.png",[15,52,53],{},"The food truck owners management dashboard",[10,55,57],{"id":56},"result","Result",[15,59,60],{},"I created a performant, feature rich, accessible, platform for\nfood trucks to make their information available in a dedicated\nlocation. Food On The Streets is a platform that is publically\naccessible by consumers with no account required, allowing them\nto keep the 'what should I eat today?' question easy to answer.",[10,62,64],{"id":63},"what-id-do-differently","What I'd do differently",[15,66,67],{},"Food On The Streets is a great platform but still in it's early\noverall stages. When I first launched the platform, it came along\nwith a price tag for the food truck owners; $10 a month with a 60\nday free trial. I wasn't trying to profit from this platform, I\nwanted to be able to cover the costs of hosting the platform,\nstoring the data, and enabling cool stuff like push notifications\nto users when a food truck is about to open. What I didn't anticipate\nwas how much this would be inhibitor to a food truck joining the\nplatform. As of writing, I've updating the platform to be free for\nall users but the damage seems to be done. I'm not a sales person\nbut if I were to start over, I would have done more canvasing and\ngotten more commitment ahead of the platforms development. Food\ntrucks need traffic to warrant the time and potential cost and\nconsumers need content and benefit to visit the platform.",{"title":69,"searchDepth":70,"depth":70,"links":71},"",3,[72,74,75,76,77],{"id":12,"depth":73,"text":13},2,{"id":20,"depth":73,"text":21},{"id":27,"depth":73,"text":28},{"id":56,"depth":73,"text":57},{"id":63,"depth":73,"text":64},[79],{"author":80,"role":81,"lead":82},"trevor","Developer, Design, Deployment",true,false,"md","https:\u002F\u002Ffoodonthestreets.com",{},99,"A one-stop-shop for food truck managment and locating.","\u002Fwork\u002Ffood-on-the-streets","2026",null,{"title":5,"description":69},[94,95,96],"Vue","Firebase","Vercel","work\u002Ffood-on-the-streets","AsvIBdtwe5pkBV8r5PlMCZTaRRnGGv9W30TKABxGjQk",1786257317966]