🚗✨ Car Rental App ✨🚗

Team Datadog participated in ADC Hackathon 2025 to build a modern Car Rental App that blends practical features with a sleek user experience.
The app is designed to make car rentals effortless for users while giving business owners full control over their fleet and reservations.

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✅ Features (MVP)

• Car Inventory & Search: Browse cars by make, model, type, availability, and price.
• Reservation System: Guest soft-reservations and account-holder firm reservations with conflict handling.
• User Accounts: Sign up, manage profile, driver’s license info, and payment methods.
• Payment Processing: Stripe/PayPal (or placeholder) for deposits and rental charges.
• Booking Management: View, modify, cancel reservations with notifications.
• Business Owner Dashboard: Manage cars, reservations, and view reports.

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✨ Stretch Goals (Optional)

• Loyalty/Rewards system
• Referral codes & discounts
• Ratings & Reviews
• Smart recommendations
• Map integration for pickups
• Dynamic pricing & fleet management
• Analytics dashboards
• Multilingual support & offline mode
• In-app chat
• Insurance add-ons

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👥 Team Members

• Amadi-Sheriff Delight - Fullstack Developer
• Biobele Owen - Product Designer
• Stephen Eriki - Product Manager
• Marvinphil Sekoh Annorbah - Backend Developer
• Robert Dominic - Frontend Developer
• Testimony Everest - Team mentor

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🎨 Design (Figma)

The project UI/UX designs and prototypes are available in Figma:

https://www.figma.com/design/iduy7MNxm8C3WhpM0vF4LC/Car-Rental-App?node-id=0-1&p=f&t=bWRAwNzGPkWd3xJE-0

Open the link to view artboards, flows, and component specs used by the frontend team.

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📁 Repositories / Where to look

• frontend/ — React + Vite frontend. See frontend/README.md for setup, scripts and env variables.
• backend/ — Express + TypeScript API. See backend/README.md for setup, scripts, tests and seeding.