Duck Duck Hunt - BYUI based rubber duck geocaching

Everyone loves to find rubber ducks. My project combined the utility of Pokemon GO with the real world aspect of geocaching. I created a web app that allows users to find rubber ducks hidden around campus and scan the qr codes on the ducks to get points.

When I built this app, I had zero experience with backend development. I had to learn how to use RemixJS, Knex, and PostgreSQL.

The app was immensly popular with over 100 users registered in the first 2 days. We even were able to use the database to find users who after finding a duck would pocket the duck instead of hiding it. We did this by checking to see if the duck was found by a user and then if the duck was found again by anyone else. We noticed several users who were always the last person to find the duck and were able to contact them and request they return the duck to its hiding place.