Eat Exchange is a food social network and digital application designed to enable citizens to trade food that they have grown in their homes. Once trades have taken place, the food that is being traded will be transported via an automated delivery system that takes the form of a robot that has a refrigeration box. The purpose of this app is to trade food or fish that people farm in the salt city community. The farming industry in Salt City exclusively farms fruit, vegetables, grains, nuts, and tree bi-products. All of the meat is cultured (lab grown) except for fish which are also farmed in peoples homes, through aquaponic farming, or aquaculture. Synthetic chicken eggs are also produced by a separate entity in the community. The amount of food that a household could farm would directly correlate to the amount of space they have in their home to farm, and they have to take into consideration that different types of produce take more or less room to grow. People that live in this community would only be able to farm a limited amount of fruits, vegetables and fish so this app will make it possible to easily trade produce. This app would be used when they have a surplus of certain produce that they don’t need and someone else might find useful. Or if there is a fruit, vegetable or fish the user doesn’t have they can offer to trade something that they do have.

The app works similar to the way a social media app works mixed with the functionality of a selling app. The main apps that I drew inspiration from include Offer Up, Facebook, and Facebook Marketplace. A user can list almost anything that they are trying to sell, with some exceptions (such as live animals), with the price they are looking to sell the item they have listed within these applications. Other users can then agree to pay the price of the item that is listed, or they have an option to make an offer that is different from the listed price. Eat Exchange functions similarly to this except people offer each other varying amounts of different foods in exchange for food that they want. There is no money being exchanged in these transactions.