Leo Barros from FE Computer Engineering, DBCE, builds ‘Quarantined Chefs’

What started off as a final project for Harvard’s CS50 online course, ‘Quarantined Chefs’ a website built by Mr. Leo Barros from FE Computer, DBCE, is now helping many home cooks and bakers to expand their business to reach a larger clientele. As part of the project he had to observe a problem and come up with a plausible solution. “With the onset of the pandemic, I noticed that a lot of people from Goa had taken to cooking and selling food from their home. Some did it as a hobby while for others; it was their primary source of income. Most of these people promote their business through social media, but this alone has a limited reach when it comes to each individual. Hence I decided to build a single platform dedicated to these home-based chefs where they could register and showcase their business,” he said.

Each listing on ‘Quarantined Chefs’ displays the menu, locality, as well as direct links to the social media profiles of the chefs so that the viewers can contact the chefs directly. He launched the website on June 1, 2021 and received an overwhelming response of over 300⁺ users in just 4 days. “From staying up late to fix bugs, to coding and implementing a manual-review system for the listings in a matter of few hours to managing the entire marketing process single handed, this has definitely been a learning process,” he posted on his LinkedIn feed. This platform is built as a non-profit project. It is completely free and as of now, available only to residents of Goa. Besides this, Mr. Leo Barros has also begun a series of webinars called ‘DeveloperSundays with Leo.’

https://www.quarantinedchefs.site/

https://leo.barros.github.io/dswl.html