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title: LunchMate

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# LunchMate 
*Like Tinder, but for finding your lunch partners in a crowded community, such as colleges, universities, and even workplaces, it’s challenging to connect with people.*

LunchMate is a website application, created to help people find their lunch partners. It prioritizes the minimalist interface and easy-to-use user experience.

## Why LunchMate?
Entering college, in the first few months, I have always found myself sitting empty at the table. For a teenager, "fitting in" is the issue I struggles with. 

But this isn't everyone's fault. It's because I haven't found people who share the same interests as me. I want to change this. Inspired by *Never Eat Alone* by Keith Ferrazzi, I want to create a web application where people can enter their interests, and the app will handle the matching process. 

With this application, I hope I can help to build more meaningful connections!

## Key Features
* Connecting by location, gender, and interests
    * In workplace, it will be about which team the user is working on.
    * In college, different majors will be take accounted for.
    * In community, where you live decide who you meet.
* Security 
    * Email verification (ex: college users have to confirm through the school email)
    * SMS verification 
* Friends system
* Review
    * Trustworthy, rating experiences
* Personal goals for networking
    * Set your own personal goals to meet new people
* One-click for setting up meeting
    * Auto setting up meeting in safe public places
    * Reminder through email, SMS
* Reschedule for any unfortunate reasons 

Rough draft

1) Model: lunch, number of people attending (one-on-one only), users
2) Confirmation seamlessly
3) Wireframe.cc
4) Create ics with NodeJS