Fido
What is Fido?
Fido is a beer suggestion application built on the ASP.Net MVC Framework, utilizing the BreweryDb.com API.
Fido matches a user with an available beer from a location based on a preferred beer chosen by the user in one of three ways:
- From a user-managed list of favorite beers
- From a list of nationally available popular beers
- From an integrated search using BreweryDb.com
Why Fido?
As microbreweries grow in popularity the average consumer finds them-self faced with a greater number of obscure beer choices at their local pub. Fido allows a user to choose a beer he or she knows they would enjoy and see matches based on specific attributes of that beer.
How does it work?
Fido breaks a beer down into the attributes that lend to a beer’s desirability.
- Style (American Pale, Dry-Stout, Belgian White Ale etc.)
- Bitterness (International Bitterness Units)
- Hops (The hops used to flavor the beer)
- Brewery (Many people like to support brewery from which they already like beers)
By weighting these similarities, Fido aggregates an ordered list of matching beers displaying them one side-by-side with the chosen beer for quick user comparison. A simplified chart of the process is found below as well on the application’s About page.
Fido was built as a capstone project representing a culmination of skills learned during my 12 week immersive course in back-end engineering at The Iron Yard, Greenville, SC.