MySecretary 🚀

✨ Inspiration

We wanted a personal trip assistant: something simple but smart.
Tell it about your plans, and it figures out when you need to leave, how to get there, what to pack, and even the weather. 🌤️

🔥 What it does

• 📍 Finds your location automatically
• 🗺️ Plans your trip (driving or public transport)
• 🌦️ Shows weather at your destination
• ✅ Interactive packing list (check off items!)
• 📅 Add events to Google Calendar
• 🗺️ Google Maps preview directly in-app

🛠️ How we built it

• Frontend: React Native + Expo
• Backend: Node.js + Express
• APIs: Google Maps, Gemini AI, WeatherAPI
• Bonus: Cute UI theme (pompompurin 🐶✨)

🧱 Challenges we ran into

• CORS issues hitting Maps API
• Formatting Gemini AI responses correctly
• Embedding Maps in mobile-friendly way
• Designing a dropdown without using native Picker everywhere

🏆 Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Fully working planner with travel, schedule, packing, weather
• Clean, playful, non-boring UI
• Google Calendar integration from schedule ✅
• Weather affecting packing suggestions 🌧️

📚 What we learned

• Dealing with async APIs smartly
• Improving UI/UX to make apps feel alive ✨
• How to embed Google Maps properly
• Clean TypeScript React Navigation structure

🚀 What's next for MySecretary

• 📱 Publish a real mobile app version (iOS / Android)
• 🧳 Suggest packing lists based on weather automatically
• 🔔 Notifications for when to leave
• 🌐 Host backend publicly
• 🎒 Offline checklist mode

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