Pour Rice

A full-stack, comprehensive cross-platform vegetarian restaurant discovery, booking and promotion platform for Hong Kong, built independently as the Final Year Project. It supports bilingual diner and restaurant-owner workflows, including native Google sign-in, reservation updates through push notifications, AI-assisted questions about restaurant menus, real-time diner–owner chat, QR-code menu deep links and Stripe-backed restaurant advertising, with location-based services and one shared backend across every platform.

• Handled architecture, frontend, backend, real-time systems, third-party integrations and deployment across the full development lifecycle.
• Backend: Express.js REST API on Vercel; Socket.IO real-time server on Railway; Firebase Authentication, Firestore and Storage; Algolia search; Stripe payments; Google Gemini AI; Google Maps API.