Arya Venkatesan, Vidur Shah, Nicolas Asanov, Cindy Nguyen
Swipeshare is a meal-swipe sharing app designed to reduce wasted dining swipes and help students who need an extra meal get one quickly and safely.
On many campuses, meal plans include a fixed number of swipes per week/semester. This creates two common (and conflicting) problems:
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Unused swipes go to waste
Many students end a week or term with leftover swipes they can’t roll over, donate easily, or convert into something useful—so value is lost. -
Other students still need meals
At the same time, students may run out of swipes, forget their wallet/ID, be between meal plans, or face food insecurity and need a simple way to access a meal.
Despite both needs existing at once, there often isn’t a lightweight, trusted way to coordinate swipe sharing in real time. Existing solutions are usually informal (group chats, word-of-mouth), which can be unreliable, hard to coordinate, or uncomfortable to ask for.
Swipeshare connects:
- Students with extra swipes who want to share them before they expire, with
- Students who need a swipe, in a way that is fast, transparent, and easy to coordinate.
The goal is to make swipe sharing:
- Convenient (quick matching and minimal back-and-forth)
- Respectful (reduces the awkwardness of asking)
- Efficient (less waste, more meals used)
- Campus-friendly (built around real dining-hall constraints)
Early-stage project / prototype.
If you’d like to help build Swipeshare, feel free to open an issue or pull request with ideas or improvements.