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10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/conscious-consumer-z306fa | Inspiration
Our inspiration came from learning that kids our age around the globe are taken by cruel companies. Hardly anyone acknowledges this, and it becomes a major issue since these companies are getting excused for their behavior.
What it does
Conscious Consumer is an informational website helping people make better decisions about where their money goes and how they can maximize their impact and avoid helping companies that are unethical. Mant companies use child labor, harm the environment, and do great damage and continue getting profit.
How we built it
We built this on repl.it using HTML and CSS.
Challenges we ran into
We ran into design-related challenges, such as choosing colors that match.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of the impact that this project could have, especially in the age of information.
What we learned
We learned how to use HTML and figure out a design using CSS.
What's next for Conscious Consumer
We would refine the design and add more categories, as well as a filtering system so users can find exactly what they are looking for. A search bar would be beneficial as well.
Built With
css
html
javascript
Try it out
repl.it | Conscious Consumer | Helping consumers make more sustainable, ethical, and better decisions! | ['Austin Thomas', 'Niharika Pathuri'] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript'] | 5 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/anonymous-hackathon-2020 | Login Page
Home Page
Petition Page
We as people, especially our generation Z, have been known to have a huge amount of influence in advocating. All over social media, you can see so many people of the younger generation expressing their thoughts on important subjects and creating awareness to major problems. But the problem lies within that statement: most people will not be interested in a topic unless it becomes “a trend” on social media. Our group wanted to create something that gives people the opportunity to not just follow whatever problem is biggest right now, but what they themselves believe is an important thing that needs their support. That’s why we created our app Involved, where a person can freely look through different groups and activist topics, as well as find ways to get involved and do more than just comment on a trending post that someone made. As our whole group had little to no experience with the creation of apps, it was definitely a struggle as well as a great learning experience. The information we needed to build our app wasn’t something you could just find a 5 minute tutorial on, so we spent a lot of time combing through FAQs and instructional videos, all while figuring out techniques and features by ourselves. In all, we are satisfied with our end result and hope to continue to develop our skills by further building and getting more experienced with the processes of app-building.
Built With
css
Try it out
www.figma.com | Involved | An app that gives you opportunities to involve yourself in activism groups with ease and stay informed of current problems | ['Adnan Murtaza', 'Michelle Boisvert', 'Jayson Carboo'] | [] | ['css'] | 6 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/food-for-everyone-during-covid-19-otkhlj | Inspiration
As more people can't afford food during these harsh times, we wanted to help these people get food from food banks using our website. At the same time, we wanted to help supermarkets reduce on the amount of food they waste because of their expiry and we wanted to help food banks replenish their food stocks.
What it does
Our website allows individual donors, supermarket donors, food banks, and recipients to sign up. Individual donors can find food banks to donate their unpackaged food, supermarkets can create batches of products they want to donate and publish it on the website for food banks to see and request a pickup for these items, food banks can request and collect food from supermarkets and also create a batch of products for recipients to see what they have in stock, and recipients can see what food items food banks are providing and register the products they want and collect them.
How we built it
We used HTML, CSS, JS, SQLite, and Python.
Challenges I ran into
One of the main challenges was dealing with batch, which was hard to update and connect to the database.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We were able to create a fully functioning website and incorporate all of the features we wanted (except for some styling and info of the homepage).
What I learned
We learned all about SQLite and Python Flask and how to make a website with them.
What's next for Food For Everyone During COVID-19
We will make an actual logo :) and make the homepage have info. We will also add a delete button so that people who need to add batches can delete products they accidentally added.
Built With
css3
flask
git
github
html5
javascript
python
sqlite
upcitemdb
Try it out
github.com | Food For Everyone during COVID-19 | A way for supermarkets, individual donors, food banks, and recipients to connect! | ['Krishnan Shankar', 'Sarang Goel'] | [] | ['css3', 'flask', 'git', 'github', 'html5', 'javascript', 'python', 'sqlite', 'upcitemdb'] | 7 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/hinder-swipe-right-for-change | Home Page
Your Information
Data received from Your Information
Hinder Page
Hinder Page 2
Hinder Page 3
Contact Page
Contact Page data received
Inspiration
The inspiration from our project came from wanting to support the Black Lives Matter movement. Qualified immunity, which allows cops to avoid accountability for misconduct, is still a legal doctrine. Black men are 2.5 times more likely than white men to be killed by police in their lifetime. Breonna Taylor’s murderers still haven’t been arrested yet, even after more than 150 days since her death. Quierza Lewis still has the only life sentence for a non-violent drug offense in a state where black people are 23 times more likely to receive a life sentence for nonviolent crimes than their white counterparts. We must take a stand against systemic racism in our society, because neutrality in situations of injustice results in support for the oppressor. So, we created Hinder: a website where you can select petitions to automatically sign through a fun, tinder-like process.
What it does
Hinder is a website that allows users to easily scroll through petitions that support the Black Lives Matter movement. When they find a petition that they would like to sign, they simply need to click on a button. At this point the website would take data that the user inputs at the beginning (name, email, etc.) and use it to automatically sign a petition on the user’s behalf. This website has four tabs: Home Page, Your Information, Hinder, and Contact. The Home Page has general information about our website and its purpose. The Your Information page asks the users to input their personal information. This input is saved to a text file, which is then read to automatically sign petitions for the users. The Hinder Page is where users are able to choose which petitions they like and which ones they want to sign. Finally, the Contact page allows users to contact the team with any questions or suggestions on the website.
How we built it
We used Repl.it to collaborate with each other. To code our website, we used HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. As for the presentation and video, we used Canva and Zoom, respectively.
Challenges we ran into
Most challenges that we ran into were pertaining to our lack of experience in creating websites. This is the first website that anyone in our team has created, so it was a very learning-based experience. This was the first time that some members had even coded in HTML and CSS, so they had to take time to learn these languages. Some other challenges we ran into were related to the breadth of our project; originally our website was going to send text messages that offered petitions and asked if you wanted to sign them. We later found out that there were a lot of legal protections around sending text messages, so we opted instead to transform the website into Hinder. Another goal in this project was to automatically find petitions through the use of Selenium, however we were not able to accomplish this due to a lack of experience and time. This will not negatively affect our project, however, because we are able to manually input possible petitions.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Firstly, none of our team members knew how to code in HTML (and CSS) two days ago. During this weekend, our team not only brainstormed and developed this entire idea, but we also learned how to code in HTML to create our website. There were two aspects of our website that we initially had trouble with, but eventually figured out how to implement on our website. We learned how to use ActiveXObjects to write to a text file. Then, we were able to use CSS to format our website really well and make it look as nice as possible.
What we learned
Our biggest learning accomplishment was definitely learning HTML and CSS, as all of our members either did not previously know HTML or had no experience in coding a website. Through this hackathon we learned a good portion of HTML and CSS formatting techniques, and how to properly code a website. Furthermore, this is the first hackathon for all team members. We had to learn to control the breadth of our experiment, as our original plans were far too big for a two-day hackathon. Additionally, we had to find a resource that allowed us to collaboratively code and we had to learn how to piece our code together. Because of our inexperience, we were not well-versed in coding with other people.
What's next for Hinder- Swipe Right for Change
If we were to continue to develop this solution, we would need to continually update our list of petitions, as certain petitions become outdated and new ones come along. For this, we want to program for automatic updates. We could also expand to displaying petitions that support causes other than the BLM movement. Additionally, as of now, all of the data that a user enters is sent to a text file. To take this one step further, we could instead keep all data in a database to ensure that the user’s personal information is secure. We would also need to make our website public, by registering for a domain and hosting it on cloud. One of the most important aspects of any product is to make sure that it is being used. We would advertise our website on our personal social media and perhaps purchase some ads as well.
Built With
css
html
javascript | Hinder- Swipe Right for Change | Swipe right for change. | ['Anwitha Kollipara', 'Esha Karlekar', 'Erin Tran', 'Helene Yao'] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript'] | 8 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/preventia-5qfjdo | Inspiration
Our inspiration to create Preventia came from seeing our grandparents struggle with dementia. We wished that there was a way to stop it from progressing while they were still younger. However, our grandparents didn't have access to great activities for them to do like those that are outlined in the Preventia website. So, Preventia was born with hopes to combat against more people getting through dementia and waiting until it's too late to prevent.
What it does
Although there is no cure for Dementia, especially in the later stages, we believe that we can help those with cognitive troubles at the earlier stages. The activities outlined throughout the Preventia website are targetted at those suffering from Dementia (especially early on). The activities are located in an accessible place, free of charge and convenient for citizens with Dementia to be able to work to keep their brain sharp from home or on the go.
How we built it
We used Javascript, CSS, HTML, and java to design the website and it's contents. We also utilized the HackTimer and hammer.js libraries in the construction of the rotating facts.
Challenges we ran into
One big challenge that we ran into was remembering to periodically combine both of our code correctly. Since time was so limited, we worked on different pages at different times. So, combining our code and changing the correct things and not losing nuances when combining was a struggle.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Two accomplishments that we're proud of are the functionalities of the activities and the design of the page. Doing all the logic for all the activities, and designing the entire webpage from scratch in about 40 hours was not a simple task, however, the outcome of the design and the ways that the activities work is fantastic. The website also displays great on smaller screens such as phones. So once the website is published and opened on one's phone, it will be usable on the go and not only on a proper computer. We are also proud of the fact scroller that goes through many facts as the design took a while to make, with a lot of trial and error.
What we learned
Throughout the course of the past 40 hours, we learned a lot about different functions in javascript that can be utilized for what we would like. We also learned about two new libraries that we can use for timers when creating websites.
What's next for Preventia
We hope to spend some time on this webpage in the next few weeks, and add even more activities and features. Since the website template is now done, it is much easier to add the activities.
Built With
css
hacktimer
hammer.js
html
java
javascript
Try it out
github.com | Preventia | A website created to help people with early stages of dementia keep their mind sharp at home or on the go. | ['https://youtu.be/7GNL5CWr4y0', 'Nithya Arun', 'Nitya Babbar'] | [] | ['css', 'hacktimer', 'hammer.js', 'html', 'java', 'javascript'] | 9 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/wish-upon-a-jar-3wadi9 | GIF
A gif of stars
GIF
A gif of stars in a jar
GIF
Star tutorial
Inspiration
We were inspired by the symbolism behind wishing upon a star and other organizations built off that concept, such as the Wishing Star Foundation that helps grant wishes for children that are terminally ill or have life threatening conditions. We also took great influence from Chinese culture and the belief that folding a thousand cranes or stars can bring luck and fulfill wishes to those who make it or it’s given to. These stars can also be circulated and spread positivity and joy among friends and family. Combined with a positivity jar or a blessing jar, we would fill the jar of stars with a more tangible version of our wishes, in which we can look back to remind ourselves of our dreams and passions. A simple note of positivity can brighten up one’s day when feeling lost or going through tough times, especially now during a global pandemic. Our website virtualizes this idea, while promoting the art of origami simultaneously. Studies have shown that origami is beneficial to both our mental and physical health and has been used in multiple therapeutic ways. In addition to simulating parts of our brains, origami can be a fun activity that strengthens family bonding.
What it does
It is a motivational jar to store all your wishes, dreams, moments in your life. You will be able to look look back on it when you are feeling a certain way, such as feeling sad and you can see one of your happy times or be reminded of your dream when you are feeling exhausted. It is both interactive on the screen and has a tutorial to make the folding star so it can be done physically.
How I built it
First we sketched out how the website would look like, then we coded in repl.it and made animations to make our website more visually appealing and engaging. Along the way, we were able to resolve any confusion with the aid of youtube and other online resources.
Challenges I ran into
We were challenged to create a product under a time limit, so coming up with our idea and coding it had to be fast paced. A big challenge we had was trying to learn JavaScript and make it so the user input is recorded under a specific emotion.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We are proud of completing our first hackathon and learning more about coding.
What I learned
We were able to experience what people who participated in hackathons have gone through, and broadened our understanding of html and css, as well as JavaScript. We learned how to incorporate user input and forms, and how to include emojis using its corresponding UTF-8 code.
What's next for Wish Upon a Jar
We hope to make the website functional.
Built With
css
html
Try it out
drumstick.vickychen0.repl.co | Wish Upon a Jar | A motivational jar to store all your wishes, dreams, moments in your life, and look back on it when you are feeling a certain way. It is interactive on the screen and has a guide to do it physically. | ['Vicky C', 'Belinda Yeung'] | [] | ['css', 'html'] | 10 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/vitalscope | VitalScope
Inspiration
Multiple times on news, I've seen cases where families are left devastated after one of their family members gets reinfected. This made me realize how dangerous infectious diseases, like COVID-19, can affect people
What it does
VitalScope is a tool that helps doctors and nurses track vitals after a patient has recovered.
By monitoring patients' health data, disease and sickness can be detected early and reinfection can be prevented.
Challenges
The biggest hurdle I ran into was creating the algorithm that finds trends for patient data. It involved many data points, so creating sorting algorithms were a must
What I Learned
While Creating This application, I learned how to use Chart.js, an amazing JS library that provides tools for designing charts
How I built it
I used ReactJs for the frontend, and NodeJs for the backend
Built With
css
html
javascript
tsql
Try it out
github.com
quiet-fjord-88890.herokuapp.com | VitalScope | Preventing reinfection one step at a time | [] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript', 'tsql'] | 11 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/climate-change-5m4eqj | Inspiration
Nasa
What it does
Displays info about climate change
How we built it
We used HTML5 as the front end and JavaScript for the back end.
Challenges we ran into
It was easy, no challenges were run into.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We got the Twitter feed working.
What we learned
More about Climate Change, and how it affects our world.
What's next for Climate Change
We will think of hosting it on an actual domain.
Built With
bootstrap
css3
html5
javascript
Try it out
github.com | Climate Change | Talks about Climate Change and includes information about it. Also shows a twitter feed. | ['Nithil Krishnaraj', 'Sritan Motati', 'Dhruv Anurag'] | [] | ['bootstrap', 'css3', 'html5', 'javascript'] | 12 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/newviewsnews-03rsbm | Inspiration
Our project was inspired by the evergrowing activism community in our country that is becoming more and more toxic every year due to closemindedness and echo chambers. This has resulted in a society that has more conflict and is less understanding of people with different opinions and political viewpoints.
NewViewsNews paves the way toward the solution to this issue by giving users a way to view articles and political arguments that are opposite to their beliefs. More people can escape their echo chambers and view other perspectives, resulting in a potentially more open-minded and understanding society.
What it does
NewViewsNews forces users to view articles and posts that differ from their political beliefs. A user must go through these steps to get started with NewViewsNews:
Create an account. In addition to creating an account, you can also login using an already existing Google, Github, or Facebook account.
Take the political compass quiz. The results of this quiz (provided by Spekr) will allow us to determine your position on the political compass. We use this data to determine which articles will show up on your home page.
Now you can view articles or write your own!
NewViewsNews also includes other features:
Liking other's posts
Providing other news articles from outside news sources sorted by political alignment
Allowing numerous customization options for writing articles
Allowing you to tag each article you write with the article's political alignment
Allowing you to view your position on the political spectrum
How we built it
The web app (frontend and backend) rests on a Django framework with a postgresql database. We built it with Django, and a basic web stack (HTML, CSS, JS). The website is also hosted on Rushil's home server, at
newviewsnews.crucialnet.org
, and we all collaborated through GitHub
repo
. The website consists of two main models other than the main User, which was the user profile and each article.
Challenges we ran into
A lot of us did not have the knowledge to keep up with some of our team members, resulting in an uneven workload distribution as far as web development. This resulted in a lot of teamwork challenges, such as our progress being bottlenecked based on the presence of certain members. Also, some of us were relatively new to Git, which resulted in a learning curve and some confusion at times.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Making a website from scratch
Learning about Django and various aspects of web development
Learned/improved our skills in Python, CSS, HTML
Becoming more familiar with Git
Learned how to implement a RSS feed into a website
What we learned
We learned a lot about web development and how Django works, as well as gained experience working with Git.
What's next for NewViewsNews
In the future, NewViewsNews intends to integrate some of the widely popular textual analysis machine learning algorithms in order to determine not only the general mood of the article but a better sense of the underlying message one may be trying to convey.
Built With
css
django
html
javascript
postgresql
python
rss
shell
Try it out
newviewsnews.crucialnet.org
github.com | NewViewsNews | Escape your echo chambers. | ['Joshua Lim', 'Rushil Umaretiya', 'Zaeem Qureshi', 'Christopher Arraya'] | [] | ['css', 'django', 'html', 'javascript', 'postgresql', 'python', 'rss', 'shell'] | 13 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/covid-classroom-6v2spy | Index page
A teacher's page for uploading and creating classes
A student's class management page
The timer for how long the student has their reward
An empty classes page for a teacher
A testing session
The webserver responsible for relay control
Inspiration
Our inspiration came from not only our own experiences, but also our peers who have had a hard time readjusting to online learning. As stressful as it can be for us, it can be even more hard for younger children who don’t know how to deal with isolated learning. We wanted to find a way to take this unnecessary load off of their young minds and allow them to gain a rewarding experience while gaining more information.
What it does
COVID Classroom is a learning platform that scrapes quizlet sets and teaches kids in a way that they’re more comfortable with. It is essentially a simulated classroom that uses an award system where the user has to study x amount of sets before a smart device allows them to turn on their video games, social media, etc. It holds kids accountable for the work that they put in, which allows them to be more focused with what their learning while being able to do fun snippets of the other things they enjoy. It provides a balance for cohesive learning. In the site, teachers can manage the classes they own along with the students in them, students are notified when they get added to a class. When they enter that class experience, a flash card type test is given, with immediate feedback. Each time a student answers correctly, they are given 15 more minutes on their device. When they feel like it is time for them to redeem the time, they can click a button on the class page, bringing them to a timer page along with posting a get request to the smart device api. This turns on a relay that controls the student's device, and shuts off after the timer.
How We built it
For Covid Classroom, we wanted the architecture to represent a teacher:student hierarchy. In order to do this, we created extensions of the default IdentityUser class to create a teacher and student class. The web scraping algorithm implemented used headers and get requests to obtain and parse quizlet sets into flashCard data types, holding the definition and the term. classroom classes were bound to these flashCard sets, along with their teacher and the list of students in them. When a student enters the testing environment, they are given a flashcard along with 4 random options from other cards. This was done through a shuffling algorithm along with the implementation of a static random class. SignalR was used in the testing page in order to supply real time updates every time the user answers. Websockets and get posts were used to apply the student's saved minutes to the raspberry pi webserver, which used RaspberryPi.Net to control GPIO pins on a relay.
Challenges we ran into
We had challenges learning how to come together to do our tasks when we are so far apart. However, we made sure to communicate effectively on how we will carry out our tasks, which allowed us to get our finished product! Another huge issue we ran into on the development side was the abstraction of student and teacher user classes, initially we had attempted the solution that allows generic functions for either student or teacher, but due to time and energy needing to be spent in other areas, went with a solution of implementing both non-abstractly.
Accomplishments that we’re proud of
We are proud that we were able to work together in such a short amount of time and get so much done. We are really proud of how the testing page ended up, it seemed to be the right amount of comfort and engagement that we were really going for.
What we learned
We learned how how to work together cohesively while being so far away from each other, and we learned how to designate tasks that best fit each of our skill levels. One of the members of our team was inexperienced with coding. However we found ways that still allowed her to contribute to our final product.
What's next for COVID Classroom
Even after the pandemic subsides, this platform can continue to be used for younger students to learn. We will migrate to online databases and publish online so that real students can utilize us, along with some UI tweaks to make it more pleasing :)
Try it out
github.com | COVID Classroom | COVID Classroom- the virtual learning platform that helps young students to grow mentally and learn happier. | ['Braden Everson', 'Marie Germain'] | ['Best Website'] | [] | 14 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/write-mind-right-mind | Project Name
This is the
Write Mind, Right Mind
project.
Mission
We wanted people to keep their mental health up during COVID-19, because while it's just as important as physical health, mental health often gets put to the side. Journaling is a proven way to reduce stress and improve mental health, and this application allows you to do this from your email. We believe users are more likely to journal if they can do so in a location that they are already programmed to check often, so we made our application: a diary that stays in your email.
Code used
This was mainly programmed in Python, using HTML for formatting. The main modules used were IMAP, SMTP, and ezgmail.
How to use the application
When the script is running, users send an email with the subject line "New Diary" to the email
writemindrightmind@gmail.com
. The application will send back an email with our instructions, mission, and another message with some statistics and prompts. The user will reply to these messages with prompts with what their diary entry for the day will be. Every day, they will get another prompt email which they can reply to. At the end of the month, they will be sent an email with all of their diary entries for the month compiled in one nice place.
Improvements
We'd like to make a lot of changes, but the main one would probably be adding dates to the monthly report. Also, fix glitches that may occur when trying to stop email.
A screenshot of our email service on mobile. | Write Mind, Right Mind | A diary emailing service | ['Riva Jain', 'Anusha Das'] | [] | [] | 15 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/pandemic-educator | Inspiration
We were inspired by the number of people that do not understand the importance of wearing masks or social distancing. We also realized that children may have difficulty understanding why they need to wear masks.
What it does
The project educates the public through fun games about the pandemic.
How I built it
It was build using Google sites. We coded the games and added them into the website.
Challenges I ran into
Because we all knew different programming languages, it was difficult to work together. We realized that a divide and conquer strategy was best.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I am proud that we were able to make all of the games come together. We are all beginners, so we were very excited when our programs worked.
What I learned
I learned about deploying files onto a website and advanced my knowledge of java.
What's next for Pandemic Educator
We hope that we can continue to add new games and features as we improve our coding skills.
Built With
html
java
javascript | Pandemic Educator | An educational site about the coronavirus with fun games people can understand. | ['Elise Zhu'] | [] | ['html', 'java', 'javascript'] | 16 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/spelling-tutor-0ye16l | Practice page
Inspiration
We were inspired by the many children who are stuck at home instead of attending school. We wanted to create an app that could help these children learn basic skills like spelling and handwriting.
What it does
Spelling Tutor lets students test their spelling and handwriting by spelling
a randomly generated word via a mouse or touchscreen. Each letter that the user draws is sent to the server in individual image files, which are then
interpreted by a machine learning model into English text. Once a student
has done spelling a word, the server runs a Levenshtein distance algorithm to
determine how accurate the student's spelling was.
How we built it
To split up the work, Niels worked on the HTML, js, and CSS (frontend), Satvik worked on the flask backend, and Soham worked on the machine learning model. Since each of us was working on the parts of the application that we were respectively good at, we were able to implement the features that we wanted.
Challenges we ran into
Managing different modules of our code and making them integrate with each other caused some problems. Since we decided to split the work so that each person worked on the part of the project they were best at (frontend, backend, deep learning), our final project had to make sure all the code worked together in one project. Unfortunately, this made testing difficult because we had trouble testing parts of the code that depend on someone else's work as not all parts of the code were written when we wanted to test. In addition, this made debugging harder because it was difficult to tell which part of the code had the error.
The amount of data we had to train the machine learning model was not sufficient for the job. We tried to download a bigger dataset, but the time it took to process the data was more than the time of the hackathon. Using a larger dataset would be much more reasonable to use on a commercial scale.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
This was the first time we have created an app that successfully integrates different parts of code, such as the successful implementation of POST requests from the client to the server, correctly using deep learning models exported from Jupyter Notebook to the server backend, and reliably managing logins through a database.
What we learned
We learned how to send image data from a frontend app and process the data in a flask app. We also learned a lot about machine learning models, and how to call them from server-side applications.
What's next for Spelling Tutor
One of our major goals is to make the machine learning model more accurate. We can do this by training the model with a larger dataset. Another goal is deploying the app, as we could not accomplish this by using free services like Heroku, and we would instead have to create a web server on a cloud-compute virtual machine via AWS or GCP.
Built With
flask
python
tensorflow
Try it out
github.com | Spelling Tutor | A spelling tutor powered by machine learning | ['Satvik Reddy', 'Soham Patil', 'Niels Voss'] | [] | ['flask', 'python', 'tensorflow'] | 17 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/samurai-girls-career-app | App Category-
Activism/Empowerment (social justice, accessibility, current issue)
Userbase
In order for people to use this app, we have to rely on word-of-mouth advertising and promotion to get people to know and use this app. The people targeted in the initial push for users would be city officials, communal leaders, and parents of young girls interested in furthering the education of their daughters. Having the app well known in city and rural communal centers would help push the expansion of a user base, and give more opportunity to us to address and meet the concerns of rural communities on education and to help young girls receive further education.
Category Selection:
Samurai Girls Career is a web-based that seeks to empower young female students in rural communities. It is targeted toward rural communities that have a significant population of young girls who are not able to seek further education at the same level as their male peers. This remains a problem around the world, specifically in rural, underdeveloped regions. This app project seeks to help change the perception that young girls should not be required to seek further education. That any success in such an effort, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. The app can help promise something to these young girls that may have not been possible under normal circumstances. It is an investment that seeks to give more opportunities to young girls who often have no choice in seeking further education and more career options. This app belongs to the category of activism and empowerment since it is designed to empower young girls and women to seek further education, gain careers, and maybe come back to their communities as experts in many fields such as medicine.
What is your project Name?
The name of this project is the Samurai Girls Career Application
Who are the team members?
Sally Jain, Sonnet XU, Alyssa Yoon, Muhammad Faheem
What languages is the app built with?
This app is being built on HTML
Short Description of Project
Samurai Girls Career app is a web-based application tailored to rural communities in helping them set up virtual education centers for young girls in order to improve their education. Virtual classrooms
How do you get the idea to build the project?
We got the idea for this application project by reading online news about how efforts in India have hit obstacles in bringing more education to young women in rural communities. While males are usually supported in their efforts to seek higher education, young women and girls in these communities are frequently not given the same opportunity and support in this endeavor. That in rural communities, limited finances have pushed these communities to only send their best men to urban centers for further education. As such, We sought to think about a potential solution or at least avenue for attaining more education for these girls and women. Thus, the idea of a simple application that can help rural communities set up virtual and onsite education centers tailored to these young girls
What is the purpose of the app
The purpose of this app is to assist rural communities in educating their young girls by allowing them to gain more knowledge and skills in a safe, virtual environment to catch up to their male peers. It seeks to create virtual classrooms for teachers and students under the watch of organizers to reach educational standards, and provide resources for these students for further education and additional career paths.
How is it beneficial to society?
Samurai Girls Career is beneficial to society as it seeks to help educate young female students in order for them to have better futures. More education and training for these bright students can help achieve careers, which brings about more benefits to these communities. Better educated women can help build stronger families, earn higher wages, reduce poverty, and generally improve the workings of local economies as a result of higher education.
Challenges ran into
One big challenge we faced when developing this project is how to connect web portals for teachers, students, and organizers on the website. We had two minds about this particular issue. Should we keep these screens separate while coding these segments of the project or should I find a solution to join these portals together in a template to simplify the issue. Generally, the issue of coding a more complex app brings about more complications, no matter how a skill a programmer is with any programming language or project suite.
Another challenge We faced is when our code was not properly functionally in my initial prototype of this application. The amount of time and effort used in up double-checking of how my code could have broken apart led to me to redo the project another way. Sometimes you face big challenges such as this one that lead to people making hard decisions on passion projects.
Accomplishments that I am proud of?
The accomplishment we most proud of is able to code such a complicated web app such as this project. This application requires many systems to function properly, and as such can be quite an issue to keep tracking in coding and testing such functions. Especially since our initial attempt at making this application fell apart in the middle of the project. We felt We had to scramble more in the less time We had to finish this project.
What did I learn?
What we learned from the previous application projects is that proper planning, time schedule, double-checking work, and other such efforts must be at the forefront in mind when working on such a project. This is especially important when something unexpected happens, and you have to start nearly all over gain. This can be quite nerve-racking and can lead to despair. But, once you set yourself to start over again, you must cross the finish line even if you come in the last place.
Summary
In summary, we can discuss the main points of this presentation of this project application. First, the purpose of the Samurai Girls Career app is to help young rural girls, who often lag behind their male peers in education, the opportunity to expand their students through virtual classrooms online. The features of this web app would help assist in reaching that goal. The app has a classroom portal and interface that allows teachers and students to have classes online. It also has listings of class, educational, and career resources tailored to these young female students. By improving the education of these young girls, rural communities, and the world at large will reap the benefits. The benefits include these girls receiving better education and skills to pursue better careers, earning higher wages, and better chances to help their local communities as experts in their fields of study. While this sounds like a great app, it is obviously not the only application that has a virtual classroom online portal.
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java
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github.com | Samurai Girls Career App | The objective is to help rural communities receive better education for young female students through the organization and development of educational programs through the use of this mobile app | ['Sally Jain', 'Sonnet Xu', 'Alyssa Y', 'Faheem :-)'] | [] | ['html', 'java'] | 18 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/save-the-reefs | Screenshot of homepage
Our custom-made Google My Map
Contact Form
Our What You Can Do page w/ links and pictures
This is our team’s first hackathon, and we knew we wanted our project to encompass what each team member knew about coding, as well as new programming skills we would learn during this hackathon. When the topics were released, we were scrambling for ideas. Some of our ideas included a medical symptom checker app, an app that rates refugee camps based on the human right violations committed there, and a website that would allow teachers to rate their classrooms. After discussing these ideas, along with a few others, we decided instead to create a web app to encourage coral reef preservation. Our app shows predicted future trends for reefs around the world as well as provides resources to people who want to help stop coral reef destruction. We chose this topic because even though there isn’t a lot of awareness about this issue, it is just as prevalent as other current and more well-known events like Covid-19 and the BLM movement. Despite our team’s inexperience with web development, the magnitude of this issue drove our development.
When we started our website, we knew we wanted to embed our own custom Google Map. This map would highlight reefs all over the world and rank them based on a formula that takes into account the average increased temperature in centigrade and the average change in the aragonite saturation of the ocean, both of which are vital to keeping the ocean's PH stable. To find this data, we encountered our first challenge. We scoured the web conducting research on how different conditions affected the populations of reefs. Our research convinced us to use two criteria when determining how endangered reefs are in the future: the average increase in temperatures(C) from 1951-1978 and 2010-2019, and the other on the average change in the aragonite saturation from 1880-2015. We then created our own formula to score each reef region all over the world, using their average temperature and aragonite increases. After doing this, we color-coded the zones by their score and added a key describing our zones to the website. Making the key on the website was challenging since everything had to be perfectly aligned, but we solved the issue by using a table. After making the table, we made the About Us page. It talks about our team’s background and the initiative behind Save the Reef. We then made the What You Can Do page, which has an infographic that shows things that you can do to save reefs and has GoFundMe pages and petitions that support the reefs. After that, we created the Contact Us page, which uses Bootstrap to provide a way to contact us. Using Bootstrap was a challenge since none of us had used it before. After finishing the Bootstrap, we added a scrolling marquee along with other features to make the website more user-friendly!
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javascript
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SavetheReefs.garvjain.repl.co | Save the Reefs | For our project, we decided to create a website using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Bootstrap to spread awareness about reefs around the world and their endangerment in the future | ['Garv Jain', 'Kdr Prsd', 'Anish Paspuleti'] | [] | ['bootstrap', 'css', 'html5', 'javascript'] | 19 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/instant-chats-29pruj | Home Page
login signup
Video calling
Inspiration
Various organisations are struggling to work together due to work from home norms. Also family relations were being affected due to Covid19.
What it does
It bridges the communication gap that occured in the community due to the pandemic through chat/call/video-call.
How we built it
We used HTML CSS JS for Frontend and PHP MYSQL APIs for back-end. Python JS For Chatbot.
Challenges we ran into
As our team members were working remotely we were unable to help each other out efficiently. Also we had some problem while setting up video call feature.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Video-call/Voice-call/Attractive UI/Instant Chats
What we learned
We learned the concepts of communication and network engineering.
What's next for instant CHATS
We'll upgrade our databases to more efficient hosting service.
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apis
chatbot
css
html
javascript
mysql
php
python
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instantchat.epizy.com | instant CHATS | We are aiming for a messaging app where a person can use both his personal and officework.He can message video call and fileshare. an office can setup their own group where every member can fileshare. | ['Shubham Nagpal', 'Amit Singh', 'Prakash Rajpurohit'] | [] | ['apis', 'chatbot', 'css', 'html', 'javascript', 'mysql', 'php', 'python'] | 20 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/covid19-bedchecker-mfhlv2 | landing page
signup
portal
Inspiration
We felt the difficulty covid19 patients face as they have to visit to hospital to check whether any bed is vacant in the hospital, if there's nil then the patient has to reach another hospital which creates problem for patients as well as hospital staffs.
What it does
Our web application allows hospital management to directly feed number of beds available and it is being added dynamically into the map. Patient can access this map to see the availabilty of beds in his/her region as well as get directions to the hospital.
How we built it
We used Bootstrap for front end and php for backend and ms-sql for database. We used python and jquery for chatbot. We used pandas streamlit for creating maps and displaying values.
Challenges we ran into
Hosting our data science web app was a bit tedious for ous.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
User can zoom in till he/she sees every streets and the hospital name and number of beds available and availabilty of ventilators.
What we learned
We learned new python libraries that we are looking forward to implement in future as well.
What's next for Covid19 BedChecker
Tying up with hospitals to get real time data, instead of a data set.
Built With
chatbot
css
html
jquery
pandas
php
sql
streamlit
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github.com
apexxcovid19999-com.stackstaging.com | Covid19 BedChecker | Through our web app a patient can check the availabilty of number of beds availabe for covid patients along with exact location and can filter out the hospitals containing ventilator options. | ['Amit Singh', 'PRAKASH SINGH'] | [] | ['chatbot', 'css', 'html', 'jquery', 'pandas', 'php', 'sql', 'streamlit'] | 21 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/paratus-bh6evr | Inspiration
As today's generation progress through the academic curriculum of school, the lack of knowledge regarding taxes, investment, and other essential financial decisions has become apparent. In order to present our peers with the opportunity to gain basic knowledge regarding finance, we have created this informative website/forum for teens to interact and learn.
What it does
This website provides students with basic information regarding taxes, investment, and managing one's money. It also creates a community of interested teens by allowing for individuals to comment/ask questions on the forum to gain knowledge.
How I built it
It was built with django, python, html, css, and javascript. We had a vision in mind of what we wanted our website to look like, and we were fairly inexperienced with the back-end coding, but through django libraries and online resources, we were able to quickly code this.
Challenges I ran into
Due to the short period of time, we had to work under immense stress to finish in time. Django was hard for us to understand at first, but this problem was easily solved through research and continual trial and error.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
By creating this website, we can potentially give unprepared teens the opportunity to learn about the information that is essential to the maximum use of their money in the future. We can create a community for teens to learn, interact, and grow.
What I learned
I learned how to use django, work with a team, and work under a time crunch.
What's next for Paratus
The potential to touch up this code into a legitimate website is high, as this website could create an interconnected community of teens. Expanding this project by adding new information and additional forms of communication (including a potential video-calling feature) would allow for the impact of this project to be far greater.
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django
html
javascript
python
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github.com | Paratus | Paratus: The Financial Guide for Teens. This informative community can be used by teens to interact with others seeking to prepare themselves for the world of basic finance management. | ['NikunjZamwar Zamwar', 'Rohan Phadke', 'Sami Ahmad', 'Mani Ganna'] | [] | ['css', 'django', 'html', 'javascript', 'python'] | 22 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/turtle-troopers | Turtle Troopers Logo
Example image from part of the "Pollution" tab on our website
Example image from part of the "Migration" pages on our website
Example image from part of the "Get Involved" tab on our website
Inspiration
Our team was inspired by one of our team member's vast knowledge about sea turtles and her personal connections with a local sea turtle organization. After some preliminary research, we realized how much sea turtles were suffering because of man made issues. We decided to use this hackathon opportunity to educate the community about issues the sea turtles faced.
What it does
The website provides aims to provide information about different sea turtle species, the pollutants that endanger them, and how humans can help to protect them by re-evaluating their every-day actions and through their vote as this year is election year.
Specifically, we provide details on the leatherback, loggerhead, and kemp ridley turtles. Each sea turtle species has their own migration page that includes a map of the turtle's route and a list of interesting facts.
On the pollution page, we elaborate on water pollution and climate change to explain their impacts on sea turtles.
Finally, on the Get Involved page, users can access a long list of different activities they can take advantage of to show their support for sea turtles.
The website also includes a navigational bar at the top of the page to move around the website smoothly. The homepage provides information about our mission statement as well.
How we built it
We relied on Google Docs to help brainstorm and outline the project before we jumped into the project. Then, we built the website using the repl.it IDE with HTML5 and CSS. To check for errors and debug the HTML files, we used the W3C Markup Validator.
Challenges we ran into
One of the biggest challenges we ran into was the formatting of the website. Most of the team was new to programming, so we had to learn and experiment with new properties and commands until the website looked the way we wanted it to.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of the overall appearance of the website and all the detailed research we worked on to provide helpful and relevant information.
What we learned
We learned that coding requires a lot of time to make sure a project is well thought-out and executed properly. We also learned how to use the W3C Markup Validator to debug and find errors.
What's next for Turtle Troopers
Turtle Troopers currently focuses on three out of the seven sea turtle species. We hope to expand our website to discuss the remaining four species in the future.
Code
You can check out the code behind the website here:
Turtle Troopers Repl
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google-docs
html
html5
repl
w3c-markup-validator
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hackdefy.catrazzy.repl.co | Turtle Troopers | An educational website dedicated to supporting different sea turtle species by spreading awareness about sea turtles in general, the dangers that they face, and how people can help protect them! | ['Salwa Din', 'Kyriana Garcia', 'Priyanka Joseph', 'Catherine Rasgaitis'] | [] | ['css', 'google-docs', 'html', 'html5', 'repl', 'w3c-markup-validator'] | 23 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/all-about-climate-change | Climate change is a major issue we face. What inspired us to choose this topic and track for our hackathon project is that animals such as polar bears and penguins, are being affected by our daily choices and lifestyle. To combat this, we developed a website dedicated to raising awareness about Climate Change because it is important to educate people on how certain choices can negatively impact other wildlife species, as well as natural structures and environments. Our website has three pages, an intro page that welcomes the user to the site as well as describes what climate change is and how it is impacting us. The second page provides numerous pieces of data and statistics to the user and finally, the third page, informs the user on what they can do to help the environment and lower the effects of climate change by “going green”.
We learned that carbon dioxide levels have been drastically rising for a while. We also found out that global temperatures have been rising by 2 degrees for the past 40 years, and oceans have absorbed a lot of the increased heat. This has caused the sea level to increase by 3.3 millimeters per year. Additionally, Arctic Ice has been decreasing by 12.85% every decade, which affects polar bears and other arctic animals and species. We also learned good collaboration skills and how to code a webpage as a team. We learned how to divide the work equally and everyone was able to acquire more coding experience as well as knowledge through peer learning.
We built the website on a site called repl.it and we used the languages of HTML and CSS. We added links and an “a href” tag to make the table of contents and the sidebar so that when the user clicks the button, it will take them to the specific page that we have linked. We were able to make the user interface by creating a form which asked for user input (in this case, it was their name), and then we used script tags to code the output, which welcomed them to our website. For the hackathon logo, we added an image on top of the sidebar, and added another link for the image so that when the user clicks the hackathon logo, they would be taken back to the first page of our website. This was done using the “a href” tag as well.
Additionally, we added buttons at the bottom of each page that would take the user to the previous/next page if they clicked on it. This was also done by adding the link for each individual page, but instead of using an “a href” tag, we added an input type (which was the button) and an output (which said next page or previous page), and coded using HTML so that when the user clicked the button, their desired page would open in a new tab. We used CSS to change the fonts, sizes, and colors of the text as well as the background, and we used the style tags to do so. We also added different images to make the pages more visually appealing, and we did that by using the img tag and added the src for the image. We made scrolling messages by using the “marquee” tag to create the scrolling message. To do this, we added the tag, changed the behavior to “scroll”, and changed the direction to right, as we wanted the text to start on the left side of the page and exit on the right side.
We occasionally faced issues while coding, due to all of us being beginners and new to coding HTML. For example, we would sometimes have trouble with the fonts as some fonts would appear larger or smaller than desired. Additionally, it would be slightly hard to read the text in code, so we would sometimes add text in spots they weren’t supposed to be in. There were also issues with format. Sometimes, due to miscommunication, we used different fonts, sizes, and colors on each page. We fixed this by discussing and agreeing on a style of text and changing all the code that wasn’t matching.
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Climate-Change.keya.repl.co | All About Climate Change! | Climate change affects all, it could be our downfall! | ['Keya Shah', 'Aakash Pamnani', 'Eesha Pamnani', 'Ayush Purankar'] | [] | ['css', 'html'] | 24 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/general-health-quiz | Inspiration
Due to the pandemic, a lot of people's mental and overall health is suffering. Consequently, we wanted people to be more aware that they should continue to exercise, eat healthy, and stay positive.
What it does
This is a general health quiz that gets an estimate of how healthy you are based on your responses and gives you sites to improve your health if it believes you need help.
How we built it
We used html5, javascript, and css to build our website.
Challenges we ran into
The entire program was challenging because we were learning as we went and had very little experience in web development.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
What we learned
We learned a lot about web development because we were all very new to this.
What's next for General Health Quiz
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html5
javascript
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drive.google.com | General Health Quiz | This is a general health quiz that surveys you and uses those answers to give you a score of your health. If the score is below a certain threshold, it will give you links to help improve your health. | ['Griff Boehnlein', 'Ishneet Kaur', 'Pablo Crisostomo Suarez'] | [] | ['css3', 'html5', 'javascript'] | 25 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/carbon-emission-calculator-xh3j18 | Team logo
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Inspiration:
Global warming, climate change, and the want to spread awareness of how widespread of a problem it is.
What it does:
Given a few details about your life, it estimates your daily carbon footprint and how it is relative to the average person. It also gives some advice on how to reduce you daily carbon footprint to help show down climate change.
How we built it:
We started by making an HTML index page, which has a small description, 3 questions, 3 text boxes, and a button. After you answer the questions by filling out the three text boxes and press the button, they are called through tomcat's doGet function, where some math is done on them, and outputted back to a new jsp page.
Challenges we ran into:
We didn't know anything aside from a small amount of java, so learning HTML, how to set up the backend of a website, and how to actually make the website intractable were big milestones for us.
Accomplishments that we're proud of:
We learned the basics of website designing and coding, then we were able to make a website that does what we want.
What we learned:
Coming into this, we had little to no experience in programming. Coming out of this, we have learned how to write websites in HTML, how to make them dynamic with Java, and how the backends of websites work.
What's next for the Carbon Emission Calculator:
We can do more research to make it even more accurate than our rough approximation. We also can make the website format look nicer, and learn more code to make the functions more advance.
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eclipse
html
java
jsp
notepad
tomcat
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www.laudiart.com | Carbon Emission Calculator | Find out your approximate daily carbon emissions | ['Arthur Prudius', 'Darren Nguyen', 'Eric Li'] | [] | ['eclipse', 'html', 'java', 'jsp', 'notepad', 'tomcat'] | 26 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/eactivist | Our Home Page
Our About Page
Our Email Template Page
Our Petition Process and List Page
Inspiration
With the growing need for positive change, especially for the many injustices in the world, we wanted to create a website where people can obtain the resources needed to make a difference. We were inspired by the people closest to us who have been affected by current events and consequently advocated for change.
What It Does
Our website has many features like an about us page, a home page, a petition page, and an email template generator page. You can learn more about our mission and website in the about page and home page. In the petition page, you can learn how to create your own petition and find petitions to sign to start your advocacy journey. Finally, our template page creates a personal email you can copy and paste to a state representative after submitting some information about who you are and what topic you are advocating for.
How We Built It
We built the entire website from scratch using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and we were able to code collaboratively using Repl.it.
Challenges We Ran Into
As this was our first time creating a side bar with a hamburger menu, we ran into issues with coding the functionality in JavaScript and the formatting in CSS. We also ran into issues with our email template generator as it wouldn't change the text or the submit button wouldn't work. We were able to solve these problems with patience and communication, but mostly the alert function :)
Accomplishments That We're Proud Of
We are immensely proud of the UI of our website as it was our first time creating a very professional-looking website from scratch, a side bar, and a slideshow. We are also proud that we were able to randomize the templates so emails sent to state representatives won't be overlooked as spam, which is normally a huge issue in activism.
What We Learned
We learned a lot through this process, especially in the coding languages of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. We also learned how to collaborate and communicate online, as this is one of our first hackathons completely online.
What's Next for eActivist
The future of eActivist includes an account system for users to track which templates they've used and a saving function to pick which emails to save and send later. We also plan to add the state representatives' emails, so users would also be able to register for an account with their email and be able to send the generated emails to their representative's within the website. Lastly, we plan to add more topics that are important to advocate for and more template choices for each topic. That way, users have more options and won't have their emails marked as spam.
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javascript
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repl.it | eActivist | Advocate for the issues that matter most to you with eActivist! Customize an email to send to your representatives, learn how to make petitions, and sign online petitions. | ['Anvi P', 'Joanna Cheng', 'Aishwarya Chakravarthy', 'Anjali P'] | [] | ['css3', 'html5', 'javascript'] | 27 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/mask-detector-vzpoqb | A screenshot of the page showing the labels and confidence, and the video the labels were found in.
A screenshot of the dashboard when no mask is detected
Inspiration
Many businesses are having trouble ensuring the safety of their customers by preventing people who refuse to wear masks from being near their store. MaskCam solves that problem, by alerting the owners and nearby users of the app to the danger. Wearing a mask is the #1 easiest thing we can all do to help save lives during the pandemic, but some people simply don't do it. Alerting people nearby of these dangers will help reduce the damage dealt by anti-maskers.
What it does
MaskCam leverages the Google Cloud Video Intelligence API to label videos recorded by an Arlo security camera. If it finds a mask in the video, it alerts the camera owner, but also anyone who has the app. Using the Radar.io API, only nearby users are alerted, and told they are in danger of being infected.
How I built it
I used Flask and GAE to write the backend, and used the Arlo API to pull videos from the camera. Determining whether there was a mask in the video was done by Google Cloud Vide Intelligence. For the mobile app, I wrote it in Swift and communicated with it to the server and using the Radar.io API for distance information. I used Bulma.css and Jinja to render the templates for the website.
Challenges I ran into
I had a lot of difficulty getting the Radar.io SDK to work in Swift, but eventually got it to work. Also, the Cloud Intelligence API had some difficulty recognizing surgical masks whereas homemade masks were more recognizable for it.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I am proud that I was able to put together such a big project as a solo hacker. This was my first time attempting something so big, and my first time using cloud Video Intelligence and Radar.io. I'm glad that I was able to get it to a working and presentable state.
What I learned
I learned a lot about google cloud APIs, the entire Radar.io API, and more Swift and app development.
What's next for Mask Detector
More camera APIs (e.g. Nest) could be added for more accessibility, but for now it only works with Arlo cameras.
NOTE: I did submit this project to multiple hackathons, but I was very careful to only work on it after all the hackathons had started and before the first submission deadline.
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arlo
bulma
flask
google-cloud
google-cloud-app-engine
google-cloud-datastore
google-cloud-video-intelligence
jinja
python
swift
xcode
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github.com | MaskCam | Detects people not wearing masks and notifies people nearby | ['Ezra Bernstein'] | ['Socially Relevancy Award', 'Eligible for the Google Hackathon Fund', 'Most Creative Radar.io Hack'] | ['arlo', 'bulma', 'flask', 'google-cloud', 'google-cloud-app-engine', 'google-cloud-datastore', 'google-cloud-video-intelligence', 'jinja', 'python', 'swift', 'xcode'] | 28 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/greener-earth-4orfpv | Our Home Page
Our Mission
Options for user to pick and learn about the issue/s they are interest in
Interactive Lesson and Quiz
Interactive Graph
Inspiration
COVID-19 has made us realize that it is really humans who are destroying the environment, so we wanted to make this project to show how people can contribute to the betterment of our society and be part of the solution to problems. Over the years, we have learnt just how important it is to help our environment. It is in everyone’s best interest that we keep our world clean and do our part to learn how to care for the environment and what affects it. The increasing damage to our one and only home, the Earth, is not only bad for us, humans, but causes major damage to the Earth’s biodiversity. With the help of this website, we hope more people understand the severity of these issues and start to make a positive impact in the world. We only have one Earth and it is up to us to take care of it.
What it does
This website has interactive features that users can click on and hover to learn more about the environmental issues. In “how you can help” page, there are different kinds of environmental issues that users can learn about. “Interactive lesson” teaches users the environmental cycle and how the cycle affects the environment. There is also a quiz section after the lesson that users can take to check their knowledge.
How we built it
We started by creating a framework for the website with the navigation bar, and from there we added an HTML file for each tab and added more code to put images, texts, and buttons. We used a platform called repl, where multiple people can edit code at once which made it easier for us. Repl also lets us test out our website and provides us with the link for the website that can be accessed from any browser.
Challenges we ran into
We had a problem with making a quiz through JavaScript but we were able to find another way to make the quiz. Also there were some issues with placing the four buttons for the “how you can help” page but eventually we figured out how to lay out the buttons in a neat way. These problems helped us gain more knowledge and aided in tackling similar problems in different parts of the code
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of researching many environmental issues and compiling them on one website so that it’s easier for users to learn about multiple issues in one webpage. We are also proud of creating the interactive features like buttons and quiz which we had the most difficulty with. And most importantly we are proud of being able to make a website that is for a good cause and will help spread awareness for more people to take initiative.
What we learned
From working on this project, we were able to review our skills for HTML and CSS and learn about some more new concepts, such as making a quiz and adding hovering features. This project also helped us with our teamwork skills, and we learned what it’s like to collaborate with others to create something together. This was a first hackathon for all of us and it was a really unique and beneficial experience. Creating something in 48 hours requires a lot of dedication and thought.
What's next for Greener Earth
We want to add a features that lets the users input their data on how much energy/water they saved or wasted and be able to display the results as a graph over multiple days from the user input data. We also want to add a dynamic map that tracks the water and air quality of the cities across the country and shows how the measures are fluctuating each day in these cities.
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html
javascript
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website.betterworld.repl.co | Greener Earth | We wanted to spread awareness about the environmental problems, and encourage users to take small actions to help, so we made a website that teaches users about the seriousness of these issues. | ['Pranav Harwadekar', 'Hyerin Lee', 'Ana Ramos'] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript'] | 29 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/covid-19-tracker-kvis7u | Inspiration
Since health is an issue in Africa this would be a great project that could actually be used to track COVID-19 efficiently
What it does
The program gives you messages to input info for each patient using multiple linked functions. It gives you the option to quit, add a patient, see all patients, view one patient’s details, and remove a patient.
In order to save the dictionary for the next user the program takes a dictionary which stores patients with their info in a custom class. The dictionary is saved to a file that lets the next user have every patient already stored without having to re enter info.
How I built it
I used python in VSCode, IDLE, and the pickle module
Challenges I ran into
Saving the dictionary permanently was hard, I had to learn to use the pickle module and troubleshoot multiple times.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I am proud of making it easy to use for anyone, and making the dictionary save.
What I learned
I learned how to use the pickle module and save dictionaries to files.
What's next for COVID-19 Tracker
I would like to make it look nicer and be more detailed. It would also be nice if there was a better form of identification and the databases could be linked making the project even bigger.
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github
idle
python
repl.it
vscode
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github.com | COVID-19 Tracker | An easy to use python tracker for COVID-19 that anyone can operate! | ['Arnim Kuchhal', 'Rohit Velankar'] | [] | ['github', 'idle', 'python', 'repl.it', 'vscode'] | 30 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/take-it-donate-it | We were inspired by all the recent events happening in the world right now due to political unrest, natural disasters, etc. Most students like us can't afford to donate a lot of money to different causes so we thought a website like this could help people without the funds donate to a cause they believed in.
It's a website that links you to multiple webpages/videos to watch that are monetized so you donate without actually having to give real money.
We built it using HTML and CSS on Atom with teletype so we could ass edit at once.
We ran into challenges constructing the quiz as it was complex and used quite a bit of code in order to be executed correctly.
I'm proud of making a functioning website in less than a day and a half especially considering this was our first hackathon together.
I learned how to use html since the last time I learned it was about 3 years ago.
We will continue to use this website to inspire others to create change through the comfort of their devices, at no cost to them.
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css
html5
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hackathonapp3.herokuapp.com | Take It Donate It | No money but you want to donate? Take it Donate it allows you to donate to nonprofits at the click of a button! It's simple, you Take it and Donate it. | ['Veronica Liu', 'Amaya Daniels'] | [] | ['atom', 'css', 'html5'] | 31 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/is-my-food-ready-uj69ev | Inspiration
One of our team members recently picked up an online order from a local restaurant (Armadillo Willy's). He was surprised to see they were using a white board to list when orders were ready! The same day he walked by a different restaurant which was using an Excel spreadsheet to tell customers when their orders were complete!
While both of these are creative solutions in the face of this global challenge, we thought it showed that there was a lack of a cheap/easy to use order status software.
There is also a fundamental accessibility problem that has arisen as a result of the sudden reliance on online pickup. Visual information such as TVs or white boards is exclusionary towards blind people and those with vision loss. Audio only notices such as an employee shouting order numbers is exclusionary towards the deaf and hard of hearing.
"Is My Food Ready?" seeks to solve both these critical accessibility issues and help make managing online orders and takeaway easier than ever for small businesses. Through this we hope to make social distancing smooth and the quarantine a bit more smooth.
What it does
Our project acts as a standalone PWA enabling small businesses without the large resources of corporate chains to have a competitive order readiness software.
The business owner/manager first goes to our sign up page and enters some info about their store, while also listing their employees email addresses.
These employees can then login using google to access our employee dashboard. Here you can either manage orders, or access the customer facing display screen (intended to be put on a TV).
In the order management screen employees can enter information about an order, including the customer's phone number. When the customer's order is ready, they will receive a text!
The employee is able to mark orders as "Ready" once they are cooked. This will display on the TV view, customer's phone, and send them a text. Once the customer picks up their order, the employees can "Complete" the order, thus removing it from the screens.
The customer is also able to enter their order number to view information about their order on their own phones.
The TV view lists the status of all orders in the system. Whenever an order is ready the order number is read out-loud to help those with visual impairments.
How I built it
We built our project as a PWA using react.js. Firebase acts as our back-end, storing restaurant and order data. We used the Twilio API to text customers when their order is ready.
Challenges I ran into
Power outages! Several of our team members are from California, and are thus enduring rolling blackouts.... Despite randomly losing team members for hours at a time, we were able to complete the project!
We struggled a lot with the front end since none of us are really front-end/UI focused developers. This however was a really good learning experience, and helped broaden our capabilities as programmers.
Fonts... For some reason it was a nightmare importing custom fonts into react.js. Thankfully we eventually figured it out, but it took a lot more experimentation than we ever expected.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We managed to get out project to complete functionality by the end of the Hackathon. We've each participated in a few blackthorns before, but often only end up with a partially completed project or bare minimum functionality. We were really happy therefore to have something nearly ready for production. There are of course features to add (as we'll detail later) but we were able to realize much more of our scope than before
Accessibility Improvements! We were really happy that we were able to build some solid accessibility improvements into our app. Massive corporations with very expensive custom POS systems still often fail to have things like Audible readouts or display boards, so being able to build something that helps those with disabilities was awesome!
We were really happy that we were able to have the status updates be texted to our customers. We think this is a great feature that plenty of the large chains don't even have.
What I learned
A lot more about remote work! All of us are in different towns right now, with 1000's of miles separating some of us. This was a very useful venture into learning a lot of the remote work tools out there.
Accessibility. We always try to think about ways our apps can be accessible, but since it was a core focus of this project we learned even more.
We learned a lot about front end/styling work in react.js. Most of us are back-end focused so this helped expand our expertise and make us better developers.
React! Some of us are very experienced in React by now, but for others it was one of their first big projects in the framework. Its a very useful framework so was helpful to get further experience for all of our team members.
What's next for Is My Food Ready?
Customization options for businesses. We want to let businesses customize the appearance of their order/TV pages to better convey their brands. Allowing companies to upload their own photos would also be very cool.
GPS detection of which stores/restaurants you're near.
QR code functionality, so that a customer can scan a QR code to find the status of their order.
Estimated wait time, automate purging of old orders.
Integrations into POS systems/ability to actually submit/revise orders.
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css
firebase
gcp
html
javascript
material-ui
react
twilio
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is-order-ready.web.app | Is My Food Ready? | Order Status platform designed to help small businesses with acessibility and social distancing. | ['Alan Brilliant', 'Ray Altenberg', 'Farhan Saeed', 'Bryan Lim', 'Drew Ehrlich'] | [] | ['css', 'firebase', 'gcp', 'html', 'javascript', 'material-ui', 'react', 'twilio'] | 32 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/prodactivity-em4dh9 | Home Page
Bottom of Home Page
Instant Cure Page
Food Portion of the Instant Cure Page
Personalized Recommendations Page
Personalized Music Recommendation
Recommendation with Usage of Spotify API
Language Calendar
Donation Resources
About the Creators
More Creators
Inspiration
We were inspired to create this website because we wanted to give people opportunities to be able to use their time in quarantine productively. During quarantine many of us were very bored and weren't sure how we should spend our time. Studies have shown that boredom is one of the main emotions felt during quarantine and that it is detrimental to mental health. Boredom is also the leading reason behind people breaking the stay-at-home order. Our team faced the facts and our plight. Then, an idea struck and we had the thought to create this website.
What it does
This website gives ideas on how people, especially teenagers can use their time productively during quarantine. This website gives random recommendations based on the topic you choose like books, movies, food recipes, workout videos and more. Additionally, there is an option with a higher commitment which is a month long calendar that gives a different activity for each day. There are options to choose from the topics of activities, workouts, sports and language. This website also gives personalized recommendations for music, books, and movies based on your personal interests. It also offers ways you can donate your time, money and resources to help with the Covid pandemic.
How we built it
We built this website from scratch using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jquery, and Python. We used a Spotify API for the chat box and added a Google Calendar insert for the monthly plans.
Challenges we ran into
Getting the Spotify API and the Google Calendar to work took a while but we persisted and figured it out. We also ran into some challenges when we had differing opinions about the aesthetics of the website, but we were able to work these out and ended up with an amazing website.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We’re proud of the chat boxes, and especially the Spotify chat box because getting the API to work took a lot of time and effort. We’re also proud of the Google Calendar portion of our website because that part took a lot of trial and error before we finally figured it out. Most importantly, we’re proud of the fact that working on this project together helped us grow our experience in computer science while helping others.
What we learned
We learned that as a team we have to compromise on some of our ideas and find a middle-ground that everyone agrees upon. We also learned a lot about time-management because we had to use what time we had wisely with some of our teammates having other activities during the day.
What's next for Prodactivity
In the future, we hope to be able to add a login/signup feature so that users are able to store information and preferences on their accounts. We would also like to be able to use webscraping to pull more activities and store them with tags in a searchable database.
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css
html
javascript
jquery
python
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repl.it
hackdefy.karnatis.repl.co
github.com | Prodactivity | A website to not only help decrease boredom, but also to give people, specifically, teenagers ways in which they can use their time productively during quarantine and beyond. | ['Moksha Karuturi', 'Shreya Karnati', 'Kriti Vidya'] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript', 'jquery', 'python'] | 33 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/your-inner-sunflower | Your Inner Sunflower Home
Get Moving Page
Talk to Someone Page
Useful Articles Page
Inspiration
"Your Inner Sunflower" was inspired by the current situation where all of us are social distancing and staying at home. This causes many people to lose the chance to interact with others in person as well as mess up their daily routines. I also noticed that many friends of mine began feeling all sorts of negative emotions such as loneliness and anxiety during the quarantine. I wanted to create this website as a resource for those who may be feeling similar emotions. The website includes unique and helpful resources that are easy to understand. This website is made for teenagers and also adults because many studies such as the one conducted on the National Center of Biotechnology Information's website have shown that these two age categories are the main groups whose mental health and well-being have negatively been impacted due to the current situation. I hope this website can foster a spark of positivity and happiness into many teenagers' and adults' lives. Just like how sunflowers do their best to face the sun and maintain a positive environment around them, I hope the viewers will be able to unleash their inner sunflower.
What it does
The website has simple navigation and every page is neatly organized. This causes the viewers to feel less overwhelmed and stressed to find specific information. On the front page, it is a brief introduction of what the website, "Your Inner Sunflower", contains. When the viewer clicks on the second page called, "Useful Articles", they can find articles that cover many insightful topics such as eating healthy and exercising at home. The articles are organized by the title as well as the cover page of the article, where the viewer can click and it will guide them to the original article in a new tab. When the viewer clicks the next page called, "Get Moving", they will be able to find easy and efficient exercises that they can do when they are feeling the negative emotions rushing in. Each exercise is labeled with a description on how to do the exercise. When the viewer clicks on the image of a certain exercise, it will lead them to a new tab where they can find more information about a certain exercise and the science behind why it's effective. Another page on the website is called, "Talk to Someone". This is where the viewer can find many hotlines' contact information such as phone numbers. One goal of the website, "Your Inner Sunflower", is providing support for the viewer, no matter which situation they are in. They are able to find multiple hotlines varying from depression to child abuse. Instead of visiting each website to find their contact information, the viewer can simply stay on the website and click the "call", "email", or "message" button to automatically contact them without going to an external link. Finally, the last page is called, "About." The "About" page contains information on why I created this website and the purpose behind it. "Your Inner Sunflower" also includes a search bar where viewers can easily find key terms that they are looking for.
How I built it
The building process of this website was an amazing learning experience! I was able to learn about so many new elements in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that I never learned in-depth about. First, I created several HTML pages to display information that will be shown on each individual page of my website. Within each page, I used headers, classes, paragraphs, shapes, links, href, and div tags. I created many classes such as "headers" so that I can easily change the formatting and style of the element within CSS. Each class that I created was uniquely named, which allowed me to easily see which class is linked to which CSS and vice versa. I also used div on pages such as the home page where I had to create containers in order to separate the elements. For the navigation bar, I created a list and formatted it horizontally in CSS. For the search bar, I created it as an input, where the viewer is allowed to type in words that they want to search on the website. In order to submit the search that they are looking for, I created a button called, "Submit" next to the search bar. In CSS, I used display, padding, position, float, font-family, color, margin-top, and so much more to help me format the website properly and create a great user experience.
Challenges I ran into
During this period of creating my website, "Your Inner Sunflower", I encountered several challenges. The first challenge that I faced was formatting the navigation bar. I spent a while in CSS trying to align the navigation bar, but the pages on the navigation bar kept on overlapping each other. However, I was able to format it correctly by using display, text-align, and padding. Another challenge I encountered was during the process of creating the "Get Moving" page. At first, I attempted to use HTML to individually add images and a description underneath each image by using img and paragraph. However, this slowly led me to confusion since there were so many image URLs and descriptions that I couldn't keep track of properly. Instead, I created a container and a class within it called, "exercises". Using the class "exercises" helped me organize and differentiate which images and descriptions belonged to which exercise. This saved me a lot of time in CSS as well since I was able to format all of the exercises at once using, "div.exercises" in CSS. Finally, another challenge that I encountered was in the "Useful Articles" page. In the beginning, I attempted to include the external link of the article underneath each topic title. However, this made the page look dull since it contained only text and made it seem very wordy. This will possibly cause the viewer to become disinterested or overwhelmed with information. To solve this problem, I included the cover page of each article and used href to link the cover page of the article to the actual article. When the viewer clicks on the cover page of an article that they are interested in, they can click it and it will lead them to the official article in a new tab. This way, the viewer doesn't have to spend time online searching for a resource since "Your Inner Sunflower" will have it displayed easily and efficiently!
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
An accomplishment that I'm proud of is being able to express my motive and purpose through my website. To do this, I picked out a specific color palette, which was yellow. The color yellow was scientifically proven to boost a viewer's positivity and energy level. I hope that the viewer will be able to feel a sense of positivity when they visit the website. Additionally, a goal I had for this website was to also display information, but not in a dull way. As mental health and well-being focused website, many people expect to mainly text since it should be informational. However, "Your Inner Sunflower" is different from this. I made sure that I included images and more visuals than text to give the viewer a relaxing experience. Important information should be displayed in a helpful but also appealing way, which is what I was aiming for while designing my website using CSS. By looking at the website, I hope that the viewer can interpret the purpose and motive behind it using the colors and displays as reference.
What I learned
Creating "Your Inner Sunflower" was truly a great experience for me. During the process, I was able to learn about different aspects of HTML and CSS such as creating classes, creating a navigation bar, and learning how important a website's appearance is. This is my second time creating a website using HTML and CSS and I usually never used classes to organize my code and elements. This caused my code to become very disorganized and made me lose track of what I was working on. However, this time, I made sure to create classes and they have helped me throughout this whole process of creating "Your Inner Sunflower". Using classes allowed me to design and arrange the styles in CSS way easier and faster. Another aspect that I learned was how to create a navigation bar. Even though this process was one of my main struggles, I am satisfied with the end result. From this experience, I learned how to become more persistent and determined, even when a line of code doesn't work properly for hours. I was not only able to learn new aspects of HTML and CSS, but also improve my personal skills such as determination. Finally, while creating "Your Inner Sunflower", I realized how important the user experience is on a website. Websites that are appealing attract more viewers and the colors, display, arrangement, style, and size that I choose play a huge role in the overall website. I learned how to create a color palette for my website, which aligned with my purpose of spreading positivity. I am satisfied with the end result of "Your Inner Sunflower" and will use the new knowledge I learned throughout my learning journey.
What's next for Your Inner Sunflower
So far on the website, I have included several useful resources in the "Get Moving" and "Useful Articles" pages. However, I am always going to update the articles and the exercises, providing as many resources as I can to the viewers who use "Your Inner Sunflower." My website not only applies to the current pandemic but life in general. We all have those moments of feeling lonely, sad, nervous, and overwhelmed even when we're not in quarantine. This website will be able to help the viewer anytime and anywhere. The resources on the website such as the exercises and articles are helpful in any situation. In order to provide accurate information, I will constantly update the website pages with recent information that has been scientifically proven. For the hotlines, I will also update any new hotlines that have been created on the website as well. One goal of "Your Inner Sunflower" is to always be there to support and accompany the viewer, no matter which situation they are in. Everyone deserves happiness, but some people haven’t had the chance to unleash their inner sunflower yet.
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yourinnersunflower.jecyliu.repl.co | Your Inner Sunflower | "Your Inner Sunflower" focuses on improving the well-being and mental health of teens during the pandemic by offering unique and helpful resources that will help them find their inner sunflower. | [] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript'] | 34 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/healthrific-your-health-pal | todo
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github.com | na | no | ['Anubhav Sinha'] | [] | ['bluetooth', 'dart', 'flutter'] | 35 |
10,504 | https://devpost.com/software/insight-dkvaju | The official Insight logo
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Insight
Developed by: Team Yes
Created by: Adrien Bekker and Vijay Sreenivasan
Inspiration
We were inspired by the variety of news sources, and we wanted to create an application which avoids bias and covers a wide range of topics. As a result, we decided to create Insight, an app that allows the user to choose an article based on what subject they want.
Features
We divided our app into four sections: General, Positivity, Science and Technology, Entertainment.
Learning and Building
We learned how to use Selenium to webscrape news articles, create a Python API, build a React-Native GUI, and connect a Python back-end to a React-Native front-end. All of the webscraping is done in Python and it uses a tool called Selenium, which provides a library for webscraping. The application Postman was used to test the webscraping API before it was connected to the front-end. The front-end was created using React-Native and Expo.io. We used Snack and Visual Studio Code for development.
Challenges
Early in development, we had trouble connecting the front-end and back-end. This is because the fetch() function in React-Native was running asynchronously, so the program would not wait to receive the webscraped articles from the Python code. We fixed this by created an asynchronous function and creating a state function to check whether or not all of the components were scraped yet.
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expo.io
javascript
python
react-native
selenium
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github.com | Insight | Simple to use with all your news | ['Adrien Bekker', 'Vijay Sreenivasan'] | [] | ['expo.io', 'javascript', 'python', 'react-native', 'selenium'] | 36 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/talk-music-rni14l | Logo
Top Artists and Tracks from the Web App
Our process was a tricky one, with lots of ups and downs, but we are so proud of our project in the end! What inspired us was our love of music and how we wanted a way to be able to connect with people based on our interests. We also got a lot of inspiration from the Spotify workshop which showed us it was definitely something we wanted to incorporate. We built our project using React, JS, HTML and CSS, UX/UI and the SpotifyAPI. Using React was new for some of us, but that made this whole process an even greater learning experience. We also learned how to incorporate Spotify which was so interesting to us, and something we would love to continue working with in the future. One of the big struggles we faced was after working on our projects for hours realizing that we needed to change the idea. We didn’t want to settle for an okay idea, but rather a great one. It took us back a few steps, but it was worth it in the end. We had some other technical struggles along the way, but it all came together in the end!
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postman
react
spotifyapi
uipath
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github.com | Talk Music | Have you ever wanted the annual Spotify Wrapped data every week? Want to talk to a community of people that love music? Talk Music offers you all that and more. | ['Abinaya Dinesh', 'Nicole Roman', 'Helen Li'] | ['Best UiPath Automation Hack'] | ['firebase', 'postman', 'react', 'spotifyapi', 'uipath'] | 0 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/masks-all-the-information-you-need | Masks: Being Artsy While Staying Safe Homepage
MASKS: all the information you need about masks
Created by Hailee Davis, Salma Alawi, Mina Kimble, Thu Do, and Elise Ikejiani
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javascript
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wear-a-mask-or-ill-stomp-your-kneecaps--haileedavis.repl.co | Masks: Being Artsy While Staying Safe | This is our website! A website that encourages people to stay safe during the pandemic by wearing a mask. | ['maru maru', 'Hailee Davis', 'Salma A', 'Elise Ikejiani', 'Lunalii ルナ'] | ['Best Domain Name from Domain.com'] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript'] | 1 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/chompas | Inspiration
Since our team is full of foodies, we decided to go on the cooking track and make a interactive website that could bring foodies from all over the world together to our website (Chompas) to share their experience to a broader community. We thought people could hunt for their own food (similar concept to Pokemon Go) but during the pandemic when people aren't able to go out, they can use the street viewer to achieve a similar experience.
What it does
Chompas is an interactive website that allows users to discover new recipes while exploring the streets of different parts of the world. Users can also share their recipe on the embedded google form and take a fun quiz to see what kind of dish they are!
How we built it
We collaborated on repl.it using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap. We also integrated the GoogleMaps API for the street viewer.
Challenges we ran into
On our team of five, it was three of our team members first time hacking, and the whole experience was new to them, making it hard to adjust.
We have never used Google APIs, so it was our first time implementing it in our code.
Since our server was crashing, and there were many errors, we had to move our entire project to a whole new platform.
Since this hackathon is virtual, we couldn't communicate as easily when our internet was lagging.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Despite the challenges, we made sure to maintain constant communication and frequently update each other on our progress.
As a newly formed team, we were able to complete the website that we planned of within two days.
Initially we all had various different ideas, but we were able to decide on a project that incorporated some part of everyone's initial ideas.
What we learned
Communication is the most important key for team work.
It's okay to ask help from other mentor and teammates.
How to integrate the GoogleMaps API through JavaScript.
What's next for Chompas
We want to improve our back-end to collect data and feedback from the users more smoothly.
Add more features for a more enjoyable user experience.
Built With
bootstrap
css
google-maps
html
javascript
Try it out
chompas.space
github.com | Chompas | The Compass Every Foodie Needs | ['Phincho Sherpa', 'Rofeeah Ayeni', 'Shania Cox', 'Jenny Shi', 'Karen C'] | ['Best use of Google Cloud'] | ['bootstrap', 'css', 'google-maps', 'html', 'javascript'] | 2 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/breakingnotes | in the middle of a jump
play the right note to break the musician out of the concrete
game intro/start
game over!
Inspired by auto-scroll games like Mario, Flappy Bird, and Geometry Dash, our game is unique in that it integrates music into its controls. As former musicians ourselves, we know that practicing can get monotonous, and we wanted to ensure that aspiring musicians wouldn’t be discouraged, especially when they cannot play grandiose songs upon first learning. Here’s the backstory: you're at a concert (with your instrument of choice, of course) when suddenly, it starts pouring concrete! By some miracle, there's no concrete on you. Alas, everyone else is stuck, including the musicians. But the show must go on! To save the musicians, play C, D, and E on your instrument to move forwards, backwards, and jump, all while playing the notes shown on each incoming musician to break them out of their predicament. Be careful, though--if you wait too long, the concrete will harden and the musician will be trapped forever!
All three of us have a bit of coding experience (about a year learning web development), which is why we chose to try a HTML5 game instead of using a game engine. However, we have never made a game before, so it was challenging to figure out the animations for the game. Additionally we referenced code for a tuner, but struggled to integrate the note recognition into the game. Since we haven’t attended that many hackathons (only 3 collectively), it also took us a while to get started using Github (we realized it’s not a good idea to have 2 people working on master at the same time). Even after consulting mentors, there are still bugs that need to be addressed, such as clearing the timer once the user plays the correct note or jumping forward and backward. Although our game is still a work in progress, we are proud of our quick learning, functional game, and pleasing UI design. In the future, we want to change the blocks to characters (like Doraemon holding a hammer, musicians in concrete blocks that break open, and a better integrated tuner/note interface). We also want to change the game controls so that you jump onto the block, then play a note to smash it. Overall, we have learned a lot about audio input and gaming, and we hope to continue to work on this project after this weekend!
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html
javascript
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github.com | doremi SMASH! | Play notes to control movements in this innovative game! | ['Claire Chang', 'Shannon Heh', 'Janet Z'] | ['Best Music Hack'] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript'] | 3 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/milk-cookies-a5rzbe | Inspiration
As avid bakers with dietary restrictions, we have always struggled to find recipes that meet all of our needs. They often contain ingredients that we don’t have at home, we are allergic to, or simply choose not to eat. When looking to make the “Best Chocolate Chip Cookies” recipe on allrecipes.com, we encountered the same problem with ingredients like eggs or butter. Thus, we were inspired to build
milk & cookies
, an extension that makes the process of finding working replacements seamless.
What it does
milk & cookies
is a google chrome extension that extracts replaceable ingredients from a recipe, and automatically suggests alternatives to those ingredients. Users can choose which ingredients they would like to replace and select an alternative that fits their needs. The extension updates the recipe on the website to display the replacements and their corresponding measurements in order to successfully make the recipe with the replacements.
How we built it
To create this Chrome extension, we first researched ingredient replacements and created a custom database. We built a frontend in React, which we connected with a JavaScript backend that extracts ingredient data from the website, queries the database to find potential alternatives, and performs measurement conversions.
Challenges we ran into
Since this was our team’s first time building a Chrome extension, one of the major challenges we faced was in integrating our product with the browser. At first, we struggled with rendering the React popup as an overlay on the website, and had to fix several issues with the build process of the extension, as well as the manifest files. When attempting to integrate the backend with the recipe website, we were met with many errors that were difficult to pinpoint in our code, since the JavaScript is minified during the build and we couldn’t see line numbers as we were debugging. Overall, the process of working with website data and using Chrome DevTools to debug our issues was a big challenge, since we couldn’t spot the errors in our code as easily.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
The accomplishment that we are most proud of is being able to successfully integrate the various components of our extension and create a cohesive product.
What we learned
Although we faced a lot of challenges along the way, we learned a lot about unit testing and debugging in different environments, working with JavaScript, as well as writing programs to parse through and modify websites.
What's next for milk & cookies...
We’re extremely excited for the future of
milk & cookies
! We hope to add customizable default replacements, including vegan and vegetarian presets, and have notes & tips about the baking process to make the integration of the replacement smoother.
Built With
javascript
node.js
react
Try it out
github.com | milk & cookies | A Chrome extension that allows users to find replacements for ingredients in recipes. | ['Michelle Pan', 'Jane Lee', 'Janvi Shah'] | ['Best Cooking Hack'] | ['javascript', 'node.js', 'react'] | 4 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/streamy-75iqbw | Streamy Logo
Register - Login - Shower
Playlist - Streaming - Duration/Dribblepoints
Dribble
Streamy App Landing
Inspiration 💧
COVID-19 has caused a large spike in water usage across the nation, leading to a 28% increase in our own city of New York, where two of our three team members live, and a 16% increase in shower-use nationwide. Streamy is here to help! Streamy combines music streaming and gamification to incentivize users to take shorter showers; after all, each minute taken off a shower saves 2.5 gallons of water! Streamy is saving the world’s water, one song at a time.
What it does 💧
Streamy has two main components: a mobile iOS app and a website.
The iOS app mixes two usually separate components: music streaming and point-driven games to incentivize users to take shorter showers and save water. The app curates a 4-8 minute playlist for the user to bop to as they shower. If the user finishes their shower before the playlist ends, they receive a Dribblepoint in their account.
The landing website also has two main components: the home page and the water footprint calculator. The home page includes descriptions of all the features that make Streamy so fun — it also includes mockups of the app so people can view the layout. The water usage calculator allows the user to gauge an understanding of just how much water they use while showering; it asks for two input values and returns the gallons of water used each shower, each week, and how much water the user could save by cutting their shower two minutes shorter.
How we built it💧
Website-
Frontend: HTML | CSS
Backend: JS
iOS App-
Swift, Firestore, Firebase (integrated to create/store/encrypt users), Xcode
Challenges we ran into💧
Alexis spent hours on one issue with linkage between storyboards in Xcode, but was ultimately able to identify the root issue, which was just accidentally linking her UIView rather than her UIViewController! Also, this was her first time integrating sound in an iOS app, so she had to learn about AVAudioPlayer through reading documentation and experimenting.
Grace also ran into issues when attempting to host the website on our custom domain; we routed our Github page to redirect to our domain by manipulating the DNS, but we later realized that there were issues when attempting to log onto the domain using a browser other than Safari. We ended up hosting our website using Github pages instead.
Accomplishments that we're proud of💧
Grace is very proud of herself for completing the water usage calculator; she had very little experience using Javascript, and since the calculator is coded primarily in Javascript, she spent a great deal of time debugging and reading up on documentation.
Alexis is very pleased with the UI design. Almost all components were thought of, customized, and made by her. She had also never built an app within one night/afternoon, so Alexis is proud of persevering through setbacks.
As HobbyHacks was Chi’s first hackathon ever, she’s proud of herself for sticking it out and engaging with a new community. Chi is also very happy with her contribution to the story of Streamy.
What we learned💧
Both Grace and Chi had never participated in a hackathon before, so participating in Hobbyhacks was a great learning experience for both of them. Since we were taking on both an app and a website, we learned so much about time management and how to cooperate efficiently as a team. While this was not Alexis’ first hackathon, she was reminded of how important and vital sleep is to the human body. More seriously, she learned and was reminded of some Xcode tweaks that will serve her well in the future.
What's next for Streamy💧
The Streamy app is still in beta, but we believe there are so many different directions we can take Streamy when it enters the market someday. We are looking to implement the Spotify API in the app to allow users to link their own Spotify account; by allowing Streamy to learn about the user’s taste in music through Spotify, this further personalizes the curated playlists and improves the Streamy shower music experience.
In terms of Dribblepoints and the existing infrastructure for Streamy users, we are looking to further motivate users by introducing a social component to the app. Using Dribblepoints, we would be able to create leaderboards and offer monthly prizes. In addition, allowing users to add and track the performance of their friends on Streamy would drive downloads and allow Streamy to maintain consistent user engagement.
Built With
cocoapods
css
firebase
firestore
html
javascript
swift
xcode
Try it out
streamyapp.github.io
github.com
github.com
streamyapp.github.io | Streamy | Saving the world's water one song at a time. | ['Alexis Fry', 'Grace Cantarella', 'Chinwe Ofonagoro'] | ['Best Gaming Hack'] | ['cocoapods', 'css', 'firebase', 'firestore', 'html', 'javascript', 'swift', 'xcode'] | 5 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/artillery | Why ARTillery?
As a group of artists interested in various types of art mediums, our team identified our number one struggle with creativity: having creative block. Inspired to help other artists across the world facing the same problem, we created
ARTillery
, a website that not only gives them a simple prompt to follow, but also gives them various options to draw inspiration from.
What is does
ARTillery gives the users three options to find creativity:
Inspire Me!, Personalize, and Teach Me.
The first option allows the user to choose whether they want to be inspired by a word prompt, color palette, and/or a song, and
generates suggestions
accordingly. The “Personalize” option takes in users’ input for art style, preferred art medium, and current mood to generate
a color palette, an example art piece, as well as an artist
for the user to get inspiration from. Finally, the last option, “Teach Me”, presents the users a
beginners tutorial
on the art medium of their choice, encouraging them to go out of their comfort zone and experiment with new techniques.
How we built it
We used HTML, CSS and Javascript to code the website. We also used Bootstrap, jquery, and
this
source for animated blobs. The color palettes are randomly generated by thecolorapi.
What we learned
Throughout this project, we learned how to host a website with Heroku, how to register a domain name, how to use animations in websites, how to prioritize certain objectives in a project, how to use git, how to use photoshop to make a logo, how to make check boxes and radio buttons look like normal buttons, and how to generate random palettes of colors.
Challenges we ran into
The main challenges we faced were collaborating 100% online and figuring out how to make the most out of discord (pinning, screen-sharing, creating a million channels and having to find out to which channel a piece of information belongs) and synchronizing - given the fact that we’re spread across 3 different time zones.
Accomplishments that we’re proud of
We’re very proud that at the end of the weekend we have a fully-functioning website, that we also managed to host and for which we have registered a domain name.
In the future
We want to make the recommendations even more personal, by taking into account the user’s favorite genre of music and chosen subject of drawing. We also want to feature a tally of how many people got inspired to create art from the generated prompts, along with a section for feedback and requests for other art mediums. We would also love to allow users to create accounts and keep a personal gallery of the art that they created based on the given prompts.
Built With
bootstrap
css
html
javascript
jquery
Try it out
www.art-illery.tech
github.com | ARTillery | ARTillery is a website that helps fight creative blocks by providing either random or personalized prompts in the form of songs, color palettes, words, motivating artists to start creating again. | ['Daphne Joaquin', 'Cirill Dalangin', 'Erika M', 'Nicole Dolot', 'Sibel Olcal'] | ['Best Arts & Crafts Hack'] | ['bootstrap', 'css', 'html', 'javascript', 'jquery'] | 6 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/zerowasted-dckanq | Inspiration
We always see food being wasted in the kitchen, so we wanted to help combat this issue.
What it does
You can type in an ingredient you don't what to do with and it will give you a list of recipes that you can use. Also, there is an option where it will show the local food banks around you, so that you can donate if you don't want to cook.
How I built it
We used HTML, Css, Js, a recipe API, and the Google Maps API. We did this on VSCode
Challenges I ran into
We had challenges with the API's because we are all beginners. We also had problems with the JavaScript because none of us used JavaScript before. Overall, we were really new to this.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We are proud that it functions properly and that we were able to successfully use the API's. I am also proud of how well we worked together despite the great age differences. Overall, it was a great first hackathon for all of us!!
What I learned
I learned how to use API's and GitHub/Git and I got more familiar with HTML and CSS.
What's next for ZeroWasted
We want to add more features to hopefully help combat this issue even more.
Team Members: Gauri Pala, Stephanie Nguyen, Ayushi Sharma, Maia Levoy
Built With
css
google-maps
html
javascript
recipe
Try it out
github.com | ZeroWasted | An application to combat food waste for avid chefs | ['Ayushi Sharma', 'Stephanie Nguyen', 'Gauri Pala'] | ['Most Courageous Hack'] | ['css', 'google-maps', 'html', 'javascript', 'recipe'] | 7 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/freshare | Inspiration
1 in 5 U.S adults experience mental illness. Freshare was created to help users feel safe and connect with others. We aim to help users escape the stigma around mental health.
What it does
Freshare connects users with many other sources to help the user find the help they need, such as journaling, tracking features, hotlines, articles, information for therapy, etc. Freshare offers a user friendly platform centered around shared experiences, recovery and encouragement.
How I built it
We built Freshare in Glitch using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Challenges I ran into
We ran into difficulties with editing the same file synchronously and having to create a schedule for work time so as to continue coding without overloading the IDE.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We built an extremely well researched and aesthetically pleasing website, and there is a huge amount of potential for future growth.
What We learned
We learned a great deal about expanding our web development skills from the basics to actua applications that we needed for the website.
What's next for Freshare
We want to build out even more features and improve the responsiveness of some of the pages.
Built With
css3
glitch
html5
javascript
replit
Try it out
freshare.glitch.me | freshare | Revolutionizing mental health care through the power of tech and community | ['Samyukta Iyer', 'Courtney Ombongi', 'Kome Onoyona', 'Kai Merritt', 'Sarem Taye'] | ['1517 Most Novel Hack'] | ['css3', 'glitch', 'html5', 'javascript', 'replit'] | 8 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/deejay-e72z4o | Block Party
Made for HobbyHacks 2020 by Jessica Cheng and Jennifer Guo
Problem Statement
With the ongoing pandemic, it is our responsibility to socially distance ourselves from others. This comes with the consequence of not being able to relax and enjoy music with friends as well as meet new strangers in your area. When people hang out in groups, they often listen to music in order to bond with each other. In the current era, it is really difficult to enjoy music in sync with your friends while remaining socially isolated.
Purpose
We made Block Party for the music category because we realized that people missed connecting with both their friends and strangers through music.
In Block Party, users first either create or join a room. You can join a room using a room code provided by a friend or join a room with other people near you.
Everyone in the same room will be listening to the same song and can add and skip songs in the shared song queue!
Software Details
We made Block Party using React, Firebase, the Youtube API, and radar.io.
In order to navigate through the pages and place people in rooms, we use React Router, along with a firebase backend.
The user can choose to join rooms nearby them, and we used radar.io to both create and detect geofences.
Lastly, in order to search, add, and play the songs in the Block Party room, we used the Youtube API.
Built With
css
firebase
html
javascript
radar.io
react
youtube
Try it out
github.com
ravedeejay.web.app | Block Party | Block Party lets you bond with friends and meet new neighbors through listening to the same music at the same time together in a socially distanced setting. | ['Jennifer Guo', 'Jessica Cheng', 'Chloe Xie'] | ['Most Creative Radar.io Hack'] | ['css', 'firebase', 'html', 'javascript', 'radar.io', 'react', 'youtube'] | 9 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/cup-o-byte | Inspiration
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many uncertainties in life.
People are panic buying, causing food supply chain disruptions.
Dine-in options are not available in many states in the USA and even in international countries.
People are resorting to buying ingredients and cooking at home.
However, due to supply chain disruptions, not all ingredients would be available in the market, and one may have to cook with whatever she has in her home.
What it does
Combined Machine Learning with API calls, created web application in jQuery and Python and used state of the art libraries like Wordnet to prepare our app - Cup O' Bytes.
How I built it
Machine Learning: Predicting what ingredients are readily available in the nearby market like Walmart, Safeway, etc.
Technologies: Python Machine Learning, Logistic Regression Machine Learning to train and give predictions
API Model:
Presenting a list of dishes that can be prepared with store-bought or available-at-home ingredients.
Technologies used: Spoonacular API calls to retrieve the recipes
Challenges I ran into
Mapping the needs of people in this COVID situation with the application, API learning, collaborating remotely across three time zones.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Building the end to end solution for those who have been affected by COVID-19.
What I learned
Understanding how Machine learning and API can be used to build an application that benefits people who want to experiment in the kitchen.
What's next for Cup O' Byte
Pushing code to production.
Built With
api
bootstrap
css3
html5
javascript
jquery
logistic
machine-learning
python
regression
wordnet
Try it out
github.com
youtu.be
vimeo.com
drive.google.com | Cup O' Byte | Cup O' Byte is an application that predicts what ingredients are available in the supermarket and what dishes can one prepare. | ['Sophie Lucy', 'Alicia Underhill', 'Shubhi Asthana', 'Nancy Tran ✧'] | [] | ['api', 'bootstrap', 'css3', 'html5', 'javascript', 'jquery', 'logistic', 'machine-learning', 'python', 'regression', 'wordnet'] | 10 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/mind-over-platter | Inspiration
Our shared passion for making quality food from diverse cultures and developing healthy habits.
What it does
Provides recipes, a meal planner, a calorie tracker baed on your meal, and tips for healthy eating.
How I built it
Using Glitch and HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and Figma for wireframing.
Challenges I ran into
Getting the Java Script to work and append the text onto the meal planner screen. Also, connecting the HTML buttons to JavaScript was on obstacle.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Making the meal plan calorie counter and meal selector.
What I learned
How to use JavaScript and work with a team of new, diversely experienced girls ready to pursue computing!
What's next for Mind Over Platter
Making the meal planner work and adding new recipes to the recipes tab. We might even have the user add in recipes too!
Built With
css
glitch
html
javascript
Try it out
hobbyhack.glitch.me
drive.google.com
www.figma.com | Mind Over Platter | Inspiration for Staying Creative and Healthy amidst current circumstances | ['Serena Behera', 'Autumn Halfpenny', 'Rachel Huang', 'Sana Madhavan'] | [] | ['css', 'glitch', 'html', 'javascript'] | 11 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/spotifygo | Inspiration
Our inspiration was to see how we can enhance people's music experience as they're travelling around the world or simply walking and going about their day. Embedded in this idea of an enhanced music experience is having ample opportunity to be exposed to all types of new music, while celebrating and enjoying the tastes you already have.
What it does
There are two components to this app. The first is referred to as "On the Hunt". Inspired by the Little Free Library concept, the goal is for virtual "music libraries" to be setup at various geolocation hotspots around one's community. The app should be able to detect when a user is within an adequate radius of this library, allowing them to then view the libraries song contents and "check out" a song. The song contents are Spotify songs that have been "dropped off" by other local users. The idea is when you like and want to "check out" a song (i.e. add it to your Saved Songs playlist), you must contribute your own song recommendation. This replaces the song that you checked out from the library, thus creating a cycle of ever new music recommendation opportunities for users throughout their day.
The second is referred to as "On the Road". The idea is that users have lots of choice in styling a playlist for drives, and eliminate the stress of needing to "figure out the radio". Note these playlists also are intended to include podcasts. The feature accomodates any sort of drive, from 5 min to an entire 18 hour roadtrip. You can choose to have a "random" playlist built, that's based on literally nothing and can introduce you to far out music options. The other is "curated" which design a playlist based off an indicated mood. And finally, you can create a playlist off of certain genre(s). All of these allow for a smoother ride in the car without having to fumble or worry about what to put on next.
How we built it
We created a multi-page React web app to host our idea. It makes use of React components to create dynamic web content and allow different views for different routes. The app root/homepage is a simple title screen that prompts the user to login with their Spotify account. This grants them access to the another page with application's "On the Road" and "On the Hunt" features. There is cover art from album's in the user's own library to decorate the page. Each feature is also sponsored through a separate page. "On the Hunt" uses Google Cloud Platform's Maps Embed Api to show a view of the users current region. The Check-in button will then let them center in on the library location and give them access to library features. Ideally, the library contents would be able to be brought in and handled by a backend database and the Spotify API would be used to let people listen to songs and view a larger selection for which songs to contribute. Looking at the "On the Road" feature: this is a collection of React Components also connected to the Spotify API in order to create the playlists.
Challenges we ran into
Learning JavaScript and React. We were all completely new to the language and had never worked on a project with it before. A specific issue includes taking a long time to figure out how to interact with the Spotify API (we were still able to implement some features, like authentication, displaying album art from users' saved songs, and getting a user's currently playing song (this feature not showed in the demo)., being unable to constantly fetch a user's current location (could only do it one time to load the initial map) and figure out how to exploit location radiuses.
Working together to bring in different components without conflicts
Accomplishments that we're proud of
It was all of our first virtual hackathon! (And some, their first ever hackathon!)
Being able to successfully create and app and interact with APIs for the first time!
What we learned
React and working with APIs for the first time!
How to bring different components together
What's next for SpotifyGO
Build out a stronger connection with the Spotify API and include more dynamic geolocating features. Also social network/user capabilities
Built With
google-cloud-platform-maps-embed-api
html/css
javascript
node.js
react
spotify
Try it out
github.com | SpotifyGO | Music is the themesong to our lives. Experience it better, everywhere it takes you. | ['Brianna Tobin', 'Amy Guo', 'Oluwamayowa Olojo'] | [] | ['google-cloud-platform-maps-embed-api', 'html/css', 'javascript', 'node.js', 'react', 'spotify'] | 12 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/healthy-living-2zyk6i | Sign-In/Sign-Up Screen
Quiz Results
Upload Screen
PLEASE TURN ON CAPTIONS FOR AUDIO SYNCHRONOUS AUDIO TRANSCRIPT
transcript of Demo Video below (Hardware Error with Video)
Link to asynchronous audio:
link
Inspiration
Have you ever wanted to take control of your health? So did the creators of HealthyLiving, Shruti, Riddhi, Antonia and Sandra! We designed and developed this mobile app for iPhone to help people set goals, learn healthy meal options, and practice challenging exercise routines. We believe in the important of spreading body-positivity messages, and wanted to create an app to help voice that vision.
What it does
This app has several features. It opens up to a login page where you can sign in or register through an email account. Next, it asks you to take a short quiz to customize your workouts! Upon completion of the quiz, you profile will be populated with all of the info you submitted on your quiz, as well as a configured BMI. Now, you can see that your workouts are customized to your needs and wants! For example, if you wanted to target your arms, the app will give you arm workouts! There are also healthy meal plans, categorized into low carbs and high carbs. Lastly, we implemented a feed feature where people could update their progress and foster a caring Healthy Living community.
How I built it
We used the reference documentation for Google Firebase with iOS to authenticate users (make the Sign-In/Sign-Up screen require a validly formatted email address and password; error alert messages appear if not completed correctly). Then we implemented a Firebase feature to keep the user logged into the app unless they click the Logout button in the Settings menu. For uploading photos to the Firebase server, we initialized the Storage & Database modules.
Next, we added a bunch of ViewControllers to our project to manipulate all the user data. We incorporated a QuizViewController, WorkoutVCs, Profile VCs, and FeedVCs. We used the MVC design model to stay organized. Lastly, the actual content from the files (workouts and meal plans) was all researched by our front end developers!
(All this info is the the GitHub readme file!)
Challenges I ran into
As first-time hackers, we experienced several hurdles throughout the way. GitHub was definitely our biggest issue. All of us were unfamiliar to the software, and we didn't know how we could use the site to collaborate on an Xcode project. However, after joining the HobbyHacks Git workshops and watching dozens of videos, we were able to pull through. Another challenge we faced was passing data in between separate view controllers of our app. The IDE told us that we could not share data of separate instance variables. However, we soon learned that we needed to use static variables. Our final challenge was recording the demonstration without sound, so we wrote a transcript for the video down below.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
As beginners to the hackathon and app making experience we were amazed by what we created. We were able to create a pretty user interface while creating fully functioning code. We also were able to collaborate and learned to use GitHub as it was our all of our first time using it. Lastly, we are proud that we made an app that people could use to gain more confidence and establish a healthy lifestyle.
What I learned
The amount of knowledge we gained this weekend will be remembered for years to come. We were able to enhance our knowledge of the Xcode application and create a fully functioning app. Learning how to use GitHub allowed us to collaborate and share all of our ideas giving us all a say in what the app contained. The seminars also helped us grow our knowledge of the hackathon experience and we look forward to participating in many more to come!
What's next for Healthy Living
In the future, we look to add playlists for each workouts and meals. In addition, we are hoping to add more workouts and more customization according to responses on the quiz. Our hopes for this app are to create a safe environment for all where people can upload their feed and see personal growth.
Video Transcript:
Riddhi:
Our vision for healthy living was to create a safe environment for everyone to become secure with their body and to be healthy. With a bunch of varying exercises and meals people can be happy and healthy.
Sandra:
For the sign in and sign up screen, we used Google Firebase Authentication modules. The user can create an account by entering a validly formatted email address, then adding a valid password. This information will be sent to the Google Firebase server, and used to let the user log into the app. The same technology keeps the user logged in until they log out in the settings screen.
Now I’m going to sign in.
Shruti:
Now, this is the first time we are looking at our app. We open up to the Profile page, and as you can see, none of the fields are populated. When we go over to workouts, we don’t see any customized workouts either.
This is when we take our quiz.
Now, you can see that all the data in the profile is populated. We have name, weight/height, BMI (configured from weight and height), goals, and targeted areas.
We can see that we have customized workouts for our ARMS, as that was our target area!
When we go to the meals tab, and click on breakfast, we can see the meal categorized into High Carb and Low Carb.
Now, we are going to the Upload section of our app, which allows up to upload an image and a comment to our holistic feed, a place for all of our users to share their Healthy Living experiences.
Lastly, we will go to settings and log out.
That’s our app!
Built With
cocoapods
firebase
firebaseauth
firebasedatabase
firebasestorage
iphone-simulator
ruby
sdwebimage
swift
uikit
xcode
Try it out
github.com | Healthy Living | Do you want to take control of your health? | ['Antonia Labarca Sánchez', 'Riddhi Sahni', 'Sandra Jay Roman', 'Shruti Agarwal'] | [] | ['cocoapods', 'firebase', 'firebaseauth', 'firebasedatabase', 'firebasestorage', 'iphone-simulator', 'ruby', 'sdwebimage', 'swift', 'uikit', 'xcode'] | 13 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/around-the-world-in-80-jams-c5dqfk | Inspiration
We all love listening to music (especially KPop), so we thought why not listen to music in other languages as well?
What it does
Allows users to input favorite genre of music and language to listen to, and gives them a Spotify recommended playlist
How we built it
Challenges we ran int
We struggled to learn the Spotify APIs at first, but we tried to learn. We also are still working on getting the HTML/JS/CSS portion to combine with the Spotify API with Python portions.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Learning new things, and getting both parts to relatively work.
What we learned
How to work as a group, while not being in person, and also about HTML/JS/CSS, and Spotify APIs for Python.
What's next for Around the World in 80 Jams
Continue to work, and combine the Python with HTM/JS/CSS to get a fully working web application
Built With
api
css
html
javascript
Try it out
hobbyhacks-wnelfjkgydaubckldw--tiff426.repl.co | Around the World in 80 Jams | Listening to music just got even cooler. Using a Spotify API and HTML/JS/CSS, we created a web application that allows users to listen to their favorite genre of music, but in a new language. | ['tiff426 Liu', 'Rebecca Y', 'Anoushka Gupta'] | [] | ['api', 'css', 'html', 'javascript'] | 14 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/flairy | Inspiration
COVID-19 has had everyone in lockdown and unable to go out. People are experiencing a need to explore hobbies as a means of mental relaxation and with more time on their hands, we wanted to offer a one stop portal that could connect them to the many arts studios, instructors, and venues offering online classes and tours. So, our team came up with an idea for all arts lovers to visit museums and historical places from the comfort of their home so they can both carry on the social distancing, explore their interests, and broaden their horizons.
What it does
Takes the users location and provide local events or classes or suggestions for museum tours as per their location or preferences.
How we built it
We used HTML, CSS, Adobe XD, Adobe Photoshop and Dart.
Challenges we ran into
Lack of time, lack of coding experience
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Beautiful interface and logo, mock-ups, bringing together a virtual team of strangers.
What we learned
A lot!
What's next for Flairy
Getting it live @faliry.tech ! We have registered this domain but it will take 24 hours to go live.
Built With
adobe
adobexd
css3
html5
photoshop
Try it out
codepen.io | Flairy | Connecting you with the world of art! | ['Shelley Ophir', 'QuratulAin Schaller', 'Chanchal Bansal', 'Prajna Jandial'] | [] | ['adobe', 'adobexd', 'css3', 'html5', 'photoshop'] | 15 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/lacerator | Inspiration
Lacemaking was my inspiration since high school. There are also many interesting mathematical problems related to it.
did you know that lacemakers from Vologda use Euler cycles to make lattices? To return to the same point where they've started.
Want to make multicolor lace and want to see how it will look while making the pattern?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_consistency#Arc_consistency
you'll surely have to deal with this!
What it does
For now it generates new pattern every time you refresh the page.
How I built it
We used procedural content generation algorithm.
Challenges I ran into
me and my teammates don't do javascript often
it was fun to try something new - we haven't done anything related to procedural generation before
it was extremely hard to pick the task which is solvable in 48 hours (especially without datasets!)
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I've learnt about wave function collapse algorithm
What I learned
wave function collapse algorithm + and about crazy things from twitter, i.e. this one
https://twitter.com/osksta/status/1147881669350891521
What's next for lacerator
We plan to collect dataset with pattern fragments (vectorized)
We also plan to improve current algorithm implementation, to be able to produce patterns for different types of bobbin laces;
We want to make preview for multicolor patterns.
Of course, there are different kinds of laces in different countries, some of them are too hard to implement)
Built With
python
Try it out
lacerator.herokuapp.com | Lacerator | Bobbin lace pattern generator | ['nmslana Dolgacheva', 'Tatiana Malygina', 'Anastasia Polevaya'] | [] | ['python'] | 16 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/coderswhocook | Landing Page pt2
Sign Up page
Landing Page
Dashboard UI prototype
How a specific user from the database get matched via our algorithm
Inspiration
We wanted to connect coders virtually, in a time where we cannot meet and to reduce that initial awkwardness of meeting stranger via the magic of cooking. We wanted the app to be unique and something really fun to use.
What it does
CodersWhoCook is a webapp that connects coders on the basis of everyone's one true love- Food! A user can create an account and set their preferences- Coding languages and Cuisines they adore. Once they are set up, they are redirected to their dashboard where they can opt to match with another user on the basis of their preferences. We use data analysis using ML and Python, to find a matches of the user. The algorithm we have crafted gives results in percentages, to help find the closest match. This is done so that when we add more variables eventually, and the matching becomes more complex we can implement this algorithm. Once matched, the users are given a recipe from their shared tastes. They can connect virtually and have a cooking/dining session of this prepared meal. This is used as an ice-breaker of sorts, and then the matched users can talk code/help with study or interview prep. It is a casual app for meeting new coders with the goal of removing any awkwardness, since cooking is a fun activity.
How I built it
Using HTML/CSS for front end and the algorithm uses python and some ML concepts.
Challenges I ran into
Our team consists of people from varying time zones and managing time was definitely a challenge. But we were able to co-ordinate as much as possible. Another hurdle was that we weren't able to develop the backend part since we lacked experience and time to learn it but it is definitely now on our list to learn it!
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Managing time, learning to code for some of the beginners and brainstorming something we are proud of. Mostly, having fun while learning.
What I learned
As it was the first hackathon for almost all of us, we did a lot of learning. Be it co-ordinating with the team, managing the diverse time-zones or overcoming certain challenges. Project management, prototyping and design skills were also some of the learnings. It was amazing to collaborate with each other, to have brain-stormed ideas and try our best to convert that idea into something tangible.
What's next for CodersWhoCook
We hope to learn back-end to implement this project to it's completeness. We have thought of increasing the variables and preferences the user can input to provide closer matches as well.
Built With
css
github
html
machine-learning
python
Try it out
aashishah.github.io
drive.google.com | CodersWhoCook | Bond over food and code with a full stomach! | ['Aashi Shah', 'Leah Teffera', 'Oyidiya Oji Palino', 'Blasovia Erinna'] | [] | ['css', 'github', 'html', 'machine-learning', 'python'] | 17 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/reading-incentive-website | Demo video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15h_M0oJiBrMgD1hLRst-knfd15BWDSlR/view?usp=sharing
Inspiration
We wanted to work with open source publications.
What it does
Creates an account for reading open source publication books where you can challenge yourself to reading goals and earn achievements.
How I built it
Soumya: firebase for authentication and data storage
Alexa: html,css,js for templates and form creations
Becca: json/ajax/fetch for creating accessible book list
Challenges I ran into
Collaborating on github is hard!
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
It looks nice and Soumya did a fantastic job with making the authentification work.
What I learned
Soumya worked with firebase for the first time and both Becca and Alexa had never been involved in a hackathon before, so the communication and practical code application were all new.
What's next for Reading Incentive Website
There's plenty more we could do. New ways to create challenge, adding more open sources books... there's plenty of possibilities!
Built With
css3
firebase
html5
javascript
Try it out
github.com | Reading Incentive Website | Read books to get achievements! | ['Alexa Iorillo', 'soumya Cherukupalli', 'becca-the-tech Williams'] | [] | ['css3', 'firebase', 'html5', 'javascript'] | 18 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/dancing-to-the-decades | Our homepage gallery. Click on any device to go back in time.
The 1960s, chock full of peace and love
The 1970s, best time to party
The 1980s, the OG retro aesthetic
The 1990s, which only 90s kids remember
The 2000s, the beginning of a global revolution
The 2010s, the boom of pop culture
Inspiration
We were inspired by Spotify playlists from various decades and wanted to consolidate all these different tunes so that people could find common ground through music.
What it does
The main page resembles a museum gallery stroll, where visitors can look at and interact with musical devices, each from a different decade, by clicking on them. Every time a device is clicked, they will be redirected to a "room" with the corresponding decade's theme.
How we built it
We used the programming languages HTML, CSS, and JS, along with the Spotify API.
Challenges we ran into
We had a hard time implementing the Spotify user authorization and animated dancing figure that we originally wanted to include. It was also challenging making each and every design element go along with a consistent theme.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're proud of creating a completed, multi-page website, having visually appealing designs for each decade with parallax scrolling style and embedded Spotify playlists.
What we learned
We learned how to utilize more unique UI design themes, like parallax, and smoothly integrate Spotify into pages. Most importantly, we learned how to collaborate effectively on a coding project in a virtual environment within a limited amount of time. Since this was the first hackathon for all of us, we'll definitely be applying what we learned in this event for future hackathons, group programming assignments, technical interviews, etc.
What's next for Dancing to the Decades
We would like to connect the Spotify API to authorize the user’s Spotify info so that when a visitor clicks on a musical device on the gallery page, a random song from the corresponding decade will automatically start playing. We are also looking into incorporating a dancing stick figure for each decade, whether that be on the pages themselves or projected outside the device as an AR model. In general, we would add more songs and fun facts, so users can listen and learn more about each decade.
Built With
css3
html5
javascript
spotify
Try it out
abbyhyde.github.io
github.com | Dancing to the Decades | We created a journey through the history of music spanning 6 decades. | ['Katherine Chao', 'Abby Hyde', 'Xiaofan Gao', 'Mari (Mariko) Woodworth', 'Claudia Lee'] | [] | ['css3', 'html5', 'javascript', 'spotify'] | 19 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/werkout-zlkwx5 | homepage
custom workout
Inspiration
The fitness apps we use don't give us much flexibility or customization. They give you the same workouts over and over and we wanted something more customized.
What it does
The idea was to generate workouts for users to their liking depending on body parts they want to focus on as well as difficulty level. We have 447 exercises in our database to choose from.
How I built it
Java frontend in Android Studio and MongoDB backend. Exercise data pulled from fitness API. MongoDB database hosted on Google Cloud
Challenges I ran into
Connecting the backend to the frontend, we ran into software bugs in MongoDB Realms and couldn't display data from the database. We couldn't finish implementing the connection.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Really beautiful frontend and good data
What I learned
Android Studio mobile development for the first time for all of us and we learnt so much. Also learned how to pull data from a public API. Learned how to authenticate users in MongoDB Realms
What's next for werkout
Connecting the UI to the database and generating workout plans
Built With
google-cloud
java
mongodb
Try it out
github.com
drive.google.com | werkout | no time like sweat time | ['Sarah Ali', 'dandruf', 'Ayusha Pradhananga'] | [] | ['google-cloud', 'java', 'mongodb'] | 20 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/musica-qrxfg5 | Inspiration
With the nationwide conversations about equity and equality, we’ve noticed a gaping hole in the tools available for those hard of hearing. Our quality of life has been greatly improved with being able to enjoy music wherever and whenever we want. With Musica, we seek to create a visual representation of songs based on its audio features for all to enjoy.
What it does
This website utilizes the Spotify API to track what a listener is currently listening to. From this data, we then analyze the song’s danceability value (a combo of tempo, rhythm stability, and beat strength) and assign it to an image that matches the value.
How we built it
For this project, our techstack included the Spotify API, Spoti.py, VSCode, HTML, CSS, Python, and Github.
What's next for Musica
We want to expand the audio features that Musica is responsive to, like vocals, volume, and BPM! Using these other audio features provided by the Spotify API, we hope to be able to create a computer generated image that is unique for each song.Musica creates an environment where music is enjoyable for all. Thank you to HobbyHacks for hosting this competition and we hope you look forward to using Musica in the future!
Built With
css
html
python
spotifyapi
spotipy
vscode
Try it out
github.com | Musica | Musica creates visualizations of songs | ['Shirui Zhong', 'Johanne Antoine', 'Karen Sung', 'Sophia Wu', 'Amy Ann Franz'] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'python', 'spotifyapi', 'spotipy', 'vscode'] | 21 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/cooking-ai | We are a team of first time hackers that wanted to build an AI to produce recipes. We picked our idea from three options that we came up with as a team. We decided how we were going to accomplish this and made a document with a plan of what everyone would be doing. Each of use learned about the programs we would be using.
We trained the AI in gpt-2 until we were satisfied with the output, which took over an hour to train each time. We had a few challenges but luckily we were able to get help from mentors when we needed it. We did not get a chance to implement this, but in the future we want to add options for people with food restrictions so everyone can enjoy our program.
Built With
gpt-2
html
jupyter-notebook
python
Try it out
github.com | CookyBot -- recipe generator | The goal is to inspire people to cook with different ingredients by creating fun recipes with an AI. We want to help people with diet restrictions (vegetarian, vegan, diabetic, celiac, etc…) as well. | ['Kaelin Panneton', 'Muchen Zhang', 'Salwa Din', 'Sornali Banik', 'Mona K'] | [] | ['gpt-2', 'html', 'jupyter-notebook', 'python'] | 22 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/college-lunchbox-50fgy2 | Inspiration
We all met at a mobile development camp this July and all realized our passion for cooking! After brainstorming together, we got our idea for College Lunchbox from hearing about the struggles college students face to balance their day with not just school work and jobs, but also maintaining a healthy diet.
What College Lunchbox does
We created College Lunchbox as a resource for college students to easily access a range of healthy recipes which can be easily filtered through by the recipes’ difficulty, price, the appliances the student has available to them and what type of meal the student wants to eat, and provides the student with vegan/ vegetarian options.
How we built College Lunchbox
We built the College Lunchbox website using the following resources: Visual Studio Code and Atom as our editors, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for our syntax, GitHub to collaborate and share the repository.
Challenges we ran into
As most of us are beginners, we were simultaneously learning as we built our project. Molly was working hard on the tables on Recipe page, Caitlyn got new knowledge about CSS, Luna successfully pushed through and created drop-down buttons for Appliances page, and Xenia went through challenges using PHP. Nevertheless, in the end, we all came together to create an awesome project we are proud of.
Accomplishments that we are proud of
We are all beginners with HTML, CSS, and Javascript so we are very proud of how we created a functional website overnight.
What we learned
We learned how to use HTML, CSS, and Javascript to create a website as some of us had no prior experience in building an entire website from scratch beforehand.
What's next for College Lunchbox
Now that we have created our minimum viable product, we want to:
Allow students to search for recipes specific to every column, not just by meal
Support member profiles that allow students to share, store, and add recipes and appliances under their account
Built With
css
html
javascript
Try it out
xcapcan.github.io | College Lunchbox | Helping college students balance school, work, and a healthy diet. | ['Caitlyn Widjaja', 'Luna Chen', 'Xenia Capcan', 'Molly Dorgan'] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript'] | 23 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/it-s-our-duty | Our home page on "It's Our Duty"
The Issue page of our website
Inspiration
Being gamers (especially girls in high school) has exposed us to a really dark side of gaming. Though the community can be accepting and super friendly at times, the community is plagued by racism, sexism, and in general bullying. With the BLM movements, we've seen many gaming companies speak up about racism and injustices within their platforms, yet very little action has been taken. It is important to spread awareness about it, not just to those within the community, but everyone so that change can happen on a larger scale. We also provided resources to educate yourselves and tips on what to do when these problems arise. Inspired by AOC's recent response to harassment from a fellow Congressperson, we realize that gamers no longer have to feel the need to just brush these things away. It is our duty to stand up to these perpetrators, whether it be sticking up for a teammate on Overwatch or reporting them through the system provided by the platform.
What it does
Our website introduces people to the issue and goes into detail about the main two types of harassment gamers often face: racism and sexism. We provided tips and resources on how to deal with these kinds of events and made comments on the types of actions that should be taken by game developers to stop this type of harassment. We also provided many statistics and YouTube videos that depict the problem in its true colors. We also made sure to provide resources for people to educate themselves through books and articles, and ways to get involved with the Black Lives Matter movement. Though we mentioned a lot of bad, our goal of this website is not to discourage gamers from continuing to play, but rather come together to make the community better. We also listed reasons the community can be great.
How we built it
As far as languages, we used html, CSS, and Javascript to build our website. For content, we looked to various YouTube videos, articles, and personal experiences to ensure our users would get the most out of this website as possible.
Challenges we ran into
There were a lot of bugs and limitations we ran into while creating this project. Sometimes one line of code would change the entire project and it was hard to work around, but we came out successful. We also struggled with attempting to make the website more interactive and pleasing to look for users. We had issues with resizing the navigation bar, and it was a challenge to create the random fact generator as we had never done something like that before. Changing the layout on the resources page was also difficult as we had to make sure the resources lined up with their headers.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're definitely proud of being able to create a finished product we're proud of in such a short amount of time. This project required a lot of research, watching videos, reading articles, and making sure we had the statistics to back up everything we said. We're also pretty proud of our fact generator, that gives a random fact every time the button is pressed. We are very proud of our how detailed our issue page is. We are also proud of our backgrounds on our website.
What we learned
We learned more about the types of harassment people really face within a gaming community, and how widespread this issue is. We also learned that game developers don't do much to halt this type of behavior, even though recently they have spoke out about these issues, very little is actually being done. Aside from that, we were able to expand our knowledge of CSS and Javascript. We definitely learned a lot more about styling, color combinations, and how to create a response Javascript code. This was also a learning experience because we were collaborating with other people across the country (and the world), people we've never met before, to create one final project. We learned more JS while creating the fact generator, as well as strengthened our understanding of HTML and CSS, especially when creating the navigation bar. We also refreshed our knowledge of using flexbox on the resources page.
What's next for It's Our Duty
In the future, we plan to expand the resources provided to users on our website. We also intend to make the website more interactive by implementing simple games created with JavaScript that allow users to get more involved with this cause.
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css
html
javascript
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itsourduty--kayleekimcode.repl.co
repl.it | It's Our Duty | 'It's Our Duty' is a website dedicated to raising awareness to discrimination and harassment within the gaming community. | ['Aliva Basa', 'Emma Fox', 'Nicole Iftekhar', 'sunjin ☀️'] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript'] | 24 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/techtogether-hobbyhacks | TechTogether-HobbyHacks
TechTogether HobbyHacks Weekend Hackathon 2020
Schedu: Journal away your hobbies! - TechTogether HobbyHacks
Main Features of Schedu
—theme page: click on a theme to set the background
—calendar page: add tasks, keep track of hobbies you want to try out and plan out your daily activities
—hobby tracking page: try different hobbies and see which hobbies you like the most! Visual representation to see which activities you have been trying out the most often.
The Team
—Rishika Bandamede
—Vivian Wang
—Sanzida Sultana
—Emily Vu
—Sandra Cheah
Built With
css
html
javascript
Try it out
github.com | Schedu: Journal away your hobbies! - TechTogether HobbyHacks | Never lose track of your newest hobby ideas! Schedu has it all: hobby trying, calendar tracking, and idea testing to change the way that you live life. | ['Sandra Cheah', 'Sanzida Sultana', 'Rishika Bandamede', 'Vivian Wang', 'Emily Vu'] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript'] | 25 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/test-2dkxjm | Website Design Mockup #1
Website Design Mockup #2
Game Design Mockup (part 1)
Game Design Mockup (part 2)
Inspiration
Over the past several months, TikTok's popularity has continued to rise among teens. In our free time, our team loves to scroll through TikTok and learn new dances together, from
Renegade
to
Supalonely
. Despite spending hours watching tutorials, we often still find ourselves struggling to remember the moves. As empirical studies have shown that gamification in education enhances learning and motivation, we decided to build an application that gamifies the process of learning TikTok dances. Since we are all collegiate athletes, we wanted to put a competitive spin on this pastime while offering a fun and safe experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, our team members are spread out across the country, so our application enables players around the world to compete against each other.
What it does
TikTok Algor-ithms
is a web application that gamifies the experience of learning TikTok dances. Under "Learn," players are able to watch tutorials on TikTok dances that they would like to learn. Afterward, they can engage in the game under "Play," in which players can choose from dances, score points for hitting the right moves, and compete against their friends. Upon starting the game, players will need to allow the access their computer webcam in order for the application to detect their motions. Players can start the song and hit the targets at the appropriate times to score the maximum amount of points.
How we built it
We used JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to design and develop our website application. For templates and styles, we used HTML5 and Bootstrap. To incorporate motion detection, we used
Benson Ruan's Motion-Detection-Virtual-Drums API
and made some modifications to his code that were more suited to our game.
Challenges we ran into
As this is our first hackathon, we initially struggled to come up with a solid, feasible hack. Also, many of us are in different time zones, with some members on the East Coast, others on the Pacific Coast, and one member in Taiwan, so it was also difficult to settle on meeting times. Furthermore, most of us are not as familiar with JavaScript, but the entirety of our game was coded in JavaScript because this made it easiest to implement the motion detection.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud that we were able to submit our first hackathon project, as well as overcome several of the challenges listed above. This event has inspired us to attend more hackathons in the future, and we're very grateful for this experience!
What we learned
Attending the workshops and lectures gave us much insight into the process of a hackathon, as well as expanded upon our knowledge and skills in the technical field. Through extensive research and watching various tutorials, we learned JavaScript, better Git practices, and effective design techniques. Also, we learned that planning our design and implementation in the early stages, as well as coordinating roles and times to video chat were essential for collaborating on this project. We're all very fortunate that we have the resources and technology to communicate with one another and attend this virtual event.
What's next for
TikTok Algo-rhythms
In future iterations, we would add more TikTok songs and sync the users' motions with the actual dance movements. We also think that implementing a scoring system where completing difficult moves scored more points would increase the competition and encourage users to learn more advanced dances. Also, we would like to learn how to compile data from users in real time so players could see where they stand in global rankings on a scoreboard. Thank you for reading and we would love to hear your feedback!
If the YouTube video audio doesn't work, here is the
Google Drive link
to the video!
Built With
css
html
javascript | TikTok Algo-rhythms | So you think you can dance? Learning TikTok dances aren't as easy as you think! Put your dancing skills to the test with TikTok Algo-rhythms, a web app that gamifies the most popular TikTok dances! | ['Peyton Wang', 'Marisa Papagelis', 'Alexandra Bullen-Smith', 'Allie Chiou', 'Jess Wegner'] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript'] | 26 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/cozy-cart | The window when users click on the CozyCart icon.
Our chrome extension Cozy Cart is designed for quick food search. when you prepare for cooking and viewing a recipe online, you can simply select one ingredient and click the Cozy Cart icon, which will direct you to a new tab presenting the most relevant items from amazon fresh sorted by availability, price, and rating. So far, we have only realized the linking without a sorting function. If possible, our future development would be making this tab view into a floating window that can allow you to stay on the same page while looking for different items. We were inspired to create Cozy Cart because we realized how annoying it was to look for an ingredient in a recipe in stores for an unnecessary amount of time; with COVID-19, it’s even harder to find ingredients in store, so many rely on online services such as AmazonFresh to get the food that they need. We thought Cozy Cart would be a great way for users to get the ingredients they need in a recipe in a matter of seconds. We all learned more about front end development and using APIs. For some of us, it was more difficult as front end development wasn’t familiar, but we all helped each other out by providing links to helpful resources. Challenges we faced were finding the right APIs for our program, and modifying our code so it works on Chrome. If we were given more time, we would have loved to have made Cozy Cart available for every ingredient available as cabbage is unfortunately not used for everything. If we did more research, we could have overcome this challenge to make it more accessible for a variety of ingredients.
Built With
css
google
html5
javascript
json
Try it out
github.com | Cozy Cart | Search for ingredients without all the fuss! | ['Angela Salazar', 'Jingyi Zhu', 'Michelle Lee'] | [] | ['css', 'google', 'html5', 'javascript', 'json'] | 27 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/readerbuddy | ReaderBuddy
Our group came together over our common interest which is reading. We thought that we could replicate a book reading club or center where readers currently engaged in the same book could join in discussions and simultaneous reading. But we didn't want this project to be just another book review platform. So, we were inspired to create it because we felt that there was a lack of connectivity among readers. We want to connect readers from all across the world to bond over the love of books and have a conversation about literature.We thought that we could incorporate the idea of a book review platform but more social where based on the interests of readers, they would find friends to read with them no matter where they are in the world.
The user will have log into the website and fill out the information for the book they are reading. Then the tracking option will track people who signed in in the same week, currently reading the same book. Based on the book a recommendation will be made and the users will have an option to start a chat or to make it more user friendly have a send a buddy read request.
Even though the website isn't complete, we started the website using HTML and some CSS. We got down some of the basic framework for our project. We also sketched out how the project would be redirected to different pages in the website.
One of the major challenges that we faced was drawing a line between just another book review platform and an online book club. But our team brainstormed ideas and differentiated every component of the project. ReaderBuddy will help the user connect with other readers who started the same book in the same week as the user and also help filter with different interests like Cooking, Music, Gaming. Then, it has an option of sending request to make sure it's a safe space for everyone and it's upto the user to accept the request to maintain a secure platform with full consent.
Our group members were based in different time zones, which was very fascinating and allowed us to get a sense of what it could possibly look like in the industry. It was great working with and around one another's time, helping build that sense of comradery and teamwork. Plus, it was really tough to pull off meeting due to living in 3 different timezones but we made it!
We learned how important collaboration and teamwork is, and how we can help to crate something that will be useful to all of our interests. We created sketches of wireframes and used those to plan how our website would be set up when it is built.
We are hoping to add a database and several other features that will cater to readers such as a book wish-list and a to-read list, also a review center where other readers will have the opportunity of rating and giving their recommendation and review on a particular book.
We learned how important collaboration and teamwork is, and how we can help to crate something that will be useful to all of our interests. We created sketches of wireframes and used those to plan how our website would be set up when it is built. | ReaderBuddy | Never read alone again, find a friend for every book you read | ['Ronisha Genwright', 'Usraat Fahmidah'] | [] | [] | 28 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/therapist-matchmaking | Try it out here:
https://lovevictoria2020.github.io/
!
Inspiration
There is a lack of transparency when connecting with therapists (not enough information on therapists beliefs, values and how well they would connect to the patient on a deeper level).
It's important for therapists and patients to click - whether it's by hobbies or by anything else.
What it does
Designed like a dating app, you can now "date" your therapist* by chatting with them a little bit before scheduling an appointment the traditional way.
Just set in your preferences and get started. We'll select five therapists from your preferences to chose from. If you feel like none of them fit, you can hit the "Evaluate again" button, which will refresh the list in a few hours
How I built it
CSS, Java, HTML
Challenges I ran into
The quiz. Timezones are hard
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We did this in 24 hours from idea to conception!
What's next for Therapist Matchmaking
Hopefully to flesh out an appointment system and to make the css look more user friendly!!!
Adding A "What do you do for Fun"
And having a API of therapists!
Built With
css
html
java
Try it out
lovevictoria2020.github.io | Therapist Matchmaking | Dating for therapists and patients. (Note: We don't support actually dating your provider) | ['Tori B', 'Alizah Ali', 'Wendy Sung', 'Chloe Jazzy LAU [11B1]'] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'java'] | 29 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/dodo-trader-pals | Inspiration
As an animal crossing player, we tend to find duplicate items. We use the beachside to hoard them. Instead of selling the items at Nook’s, how about trading them with other players? While there are ways to arrange trades with other players through social media, but you find them shortly after they close their airport. Our project is animal crossing based only to help players find what they want and what they have to trade.
What it does
Our application allows Animal Crossing players to connect with others in order to exchange houseware objects from the game. Users create an account on our website and fill in information concerning objects that they currently own and wish to trade. They can then consult other user's trade offers or post their own!
How we built it
We created our website using the Django web framework. We based the overall structure of our app on a blog tutorial created by CoreyMSchafer on Youtube. We modified it to contain the Animal Crossing houseware objects by calling the ACNH API. For the front-end, we brainstormed using Figma. We implemented the front-end using Bootstrap, HTML, and CSS.
Challenges we ran into
There is a large variety of objects in the Animal Crossing universe. We originally wanted to include different categories to include fish, critters, recipes, etc but ended up just sticking to houseware items for now as it was complicated to organize this amount of data.
We had trouble with Git; we had git merge errors and were unable to pull from the remote repo due to modified pycache files. To resolve our issue, we created a .gitignore file that allowed us to merge our changes with less conflict.
Lastly, we had issues with running the webserver but were able to resolve it using advice from StackOverflow.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of our first project using Django. Since it was our first time using the framework, it required us to read documentation and watch tutorials. For most of us, this was also our first hackathon.
What we learned
We learned how to use the Django framework for the web app. We also learned how to make virtual environments. Lastly, we learned about Git/Github for effective collaboration.
What's next for Dodo Trading Pals
The plan is to have users get matched with each other based on what item they are looking for and filters for the posts based on what the trader has. Also adding extra objects such as fish and recipes and critters etc..
Built With
acnh-api
bootstrap
css3
django
html5
python
Try it out
github.com | Dodo Trading Pals | A web app for trading Animal Crossing New Horizons objects and finding the perfect match! | ['ambreine31 Bourdier', 'kch90 Herrera', 'Janna Pierre'] | [] | ['acnh-api', 'bootstrap', 'css3', 'django', 'html5', 'python'] | 30 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/spotirecs | Inspiration
We noticed that, although there are 4000+ genres categorizable by Spotify, only the most popular genres get their own playlists. This means that thousands of genres go unnoticed. In addition, those playlists have a limit of songs and the user may get tired of them at a certain point. We wanted to create an inclusive solution for this using the Spotify Web API.
What it does
Our program takes user input like the number of songs in the playlist, the genre of it, and how dance-able (based on song beats, tone, etc) the playlist should be. This is all included in a query call to the HTTP client and a specific playlist is created.
How we built it
After researching different Spotify algorithms such as Spotipy and Spotify Web API, we watched a few videos on YouTube API integrations with Spotify and used those examples to learn how to make calls to access the API.
Challenges we ran into
Both of the coders on our team had limited experience with APIs, so we had to learn how to decode JSON files to debug, how to call a web API, and how to get a specific token that would be able to modify a playlist. We ran into problems when trying to call the API because the Spotify Web API token is very short-lived and we had to keep generating new ones.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're proud we were able to write code that successfully called an API and that we were able to finish our initial idea.
What we learned
We learned a lot about API integration as well as brushed up on our Python.
What's next for Spotirecs
We eventually want to be able to make an even more customizable playlist token that can be based upon a specific artist or even a specific song. These can even be further broken down by possibly integrated another API so we can make playlists based on the current weather.
Built With
json
python
query
requests
spotifywebapi
Try it out
github.com | Spotirecs | We built an algorithm that uses the Spotify Web API to generate a customizable playlist based on user input for specific genre as well as dance-ability of it. | ['Sanya Gupta', 'Trisha S'] | [] | ['json', 'python', 'query', 'requests', 'spotifywebapi'] | 31 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/the-coding-girl | I am building a portfolio website called thecodinggirl.tech to tell my story about learning to code and different competitions and hackathons I entered. I hope to display my code and explain it as well as all code I did for competitions. I will also do past interview questions and how to solve them.
This website is to display my coding and women in STEM journey and hopefully help others in theirs. | The Coding Girl | A website of my experience with coding | [] | [] | [] | 32 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/celebrity-music-search-83ioq0 | We wanted to experiment with the Spotify API, and this is what we came up with!
Try it out
github.com | Celebrity Music Search | Enter a celebrity image URL and find their top Spotify tracks! | ['sophie brennan', 'Annie Hong'] | [] | [] | 33 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/small-art-big-support | Home Page
Profile Page
Dashboard
Inspiration
Small artists lack platforms and miss out on potential clients. Local businesses need logos, social media content, posters, etc at reasonable rates. This way the artist supports their community and their community supports them right back.
What it does
Tell the platform about who you’re looking to work with! We match you with artists in your community, so those small artists can find work!
How we built it
We built it using HTML, JavaScript, CSS, React, Firebase, and Bootstrap 4.
Challenges we ran into
It was our first time using React, Firebase, and Bootstrap 4. Although we had a little trouble, we learned a lot.
What we learned
It was our first time using Bootstrap 4! Laying out the pages was a lot faster once we created a header/footer template. We set up authentication. It was our first try using React to structure the platform components!
What's next for Small Art Big Support
-Creating the artist/business matching algorithm based on location, skills needed, and budget.
-Building out a responsive dashboard for both the business and artist
-Adding other login and sign up methods.
Built With
bootstrap
css
figma
firebase
html5
javascript
react
Try it out
github.com
smallartbigsupport.web.app
mayhazali.github.io | Small Art Big Support | We are supporting local artists by connecting them with small business owners. | ['Mayha Ali', 'Anushka Singh', 'Sherry Lam'] | [] | ['bootstrap', 'css', 'figma', 'firebase', 'html5', 'javascript', 'react'] | 34 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/skysaverapod | ScreenSaver in action!
Inspiration
NASA's
Astronomy Picture of the Day
is one of the most popular websites for amateur and professional astronomers. Every day it shows a cool recent space photo with a brief explanation. I like checking the site frequently, and thought it would be cool to be able to see the current picture every time my computer goes to screensaver mode.
What it does
It fetches today's image and description from APOD using API from
https://api.nasa.gov/
and displays them in the screensaver. The image slowly zooms in while the text scrolls at the top of the screen.
How I built it
I used MacOS's way to build screen savers by creating a subclass of ScreenSaverView. I used Objective-C and developed in Xcode.
Challenges I ran into and what I learned
limited experience with Objective-C
learning Cocoa Drawing from scratch (that transparent text box was tricky!)
learning how to use http api from within the screensaver
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I got it to work! And I am planning to be using it as my screen saver. Especially happy that it works with external display.
What's next for SkySaverAPOD
Animation can be made more smooth and advanced! Also it would need to handle cases when today's picture is a video (like today! that's why the current version just always gets the picture for 2020-07-24 :) ). It should be able to resize the image properly when it has different aspect ratio than the screen - currently it would just stretch it. It could also be cool to have "Screen Saver Options" that users can modify to their liking.
Built With
api.nasa.gov
cocoa
objective-c
xcode
Try it out
github.com
drive.google.com | SkySaverAPOD | See the current Astronomy Picture Of the Day when your MacOS goes to sleep! | ['Kris Fedorenko'] | [] | ['api.nasa.gov', 'cocoa', 'objective-c', 'xcode'] | 35 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/overcooked | Inspiration
Sometimes you have a lot of different ingredients and want to make something but don't know what to make. Overcooked is here to help!
What It Does
Overcooked is able to generate random and relevant recipes based on ingredients and dietary restrictions of your choosing. Built in React and using the spoonacular API, we can call the API to generate recipes. You have the ability to add/remove ingredients, generate a new recipe using the same ingredients, and download recipe as a pdf.
What We Could Have Done Better
In the future, we hope to add a login/account process and meal planning feature so that users are able to save and navigate through their recipes easily. This could also allow users to connect to online grocery carts, like Instacart, to improve their cooking experience. Lastly, we'd like to improve the accuracy of our recipe search in order to deliver more relevant results.
Built With
material-ui
react
spoonacular
Try it out
github.com | overcooked | Generate random recipes based on ingredients and allergies! | ['Maya Raman', 'Hannah Zhong', 'uma patil'] | [] | ['material-ui', 'react', 'spoonacular'] | 36 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/solve-white-stop-watch | Mobile view screenshot of app
Browser view screenshot of app
Inspiration
One of our team members is an (incredibly successful!) competitive Rubik's cube solver and we decided to create an app to aid competitors (and anyone looking to practice their speed solves!)
What it does
The application offers an automatically generated Rubik's Cube algorithm that competitors can use to scramble their block for a new challenge. It also offers a stopwatch that allows users to see their solve times down to the hundredths of a second. You can interact with the stopwatch by clicking (anywhere in the app) or using your spacebar - and if you press and hold the timer won't start until you release (helping users get the most accurate times possible!)
How we built it
This application built with HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript and deployed through GitHub pages. We utilized various online resources (Stack Overflow, YouTube, etc...) and practiced both individual sprints and pair/mob programming.
Challenges we ran into
Following online resources, like a YouTube tutorial ended up being somewhat detrimental to our process, and in order to better understand our code and ultimately produce a better product, we ended up scrapping all of the code we built following the tutorial in favor of writing our own from scratch.
We also ran into one particularly notable bug - where a default action we weren't aware of with a keypress triggered an unintended, separate functionality under a particular set of circumstances (specifically, pressing 'spacebar' for the stopwatch
after
manually generating an algorithm re-triggered the algorithm generator unintentionally). By logging out the event object in each of these situations we were able to realize what was happening with the default action and add event.preventDefault() to mitigate it.
Accomplishments that We're proud of
A couple of things that we're particularly proud of is being able to render the algorithm scrambler on the webpage dynamically, as well as being able to write the stopwatch functionality from scratch, and also critically being able to write out the logic engine for the algorithm generator itself.
What We learned
For this project, we decided to challenge ourselves to not utilize any outside libraries or frameworks, and use the project as an exercise in the fundamentals of JavaScript itself.
What's next for Solve White, Stop Watch
In future iterations of this project, we would like to offer an updated listing of the user's best time, their average score, and a log of all scores. We also floated the idea of creating a server for hosting a database, allowing us to offer users the ability to compare scores and interact across the platform.
Built With
css
html
javascript
Try it out
srsexton94.github.io
github.com | Solve White, Stop Watch | A stopwatch and algorithm generator designed for Rubik's Cube competitors | ['Samantha Sexton', 'MsPockets', 'Yuna Han'] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript'] | 37 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/melodivity | Inspiration
When brainstorming, our team talked about how we all are relaxed by music and how we believe that almost everyone can decompress while listening to music. We decided to pair the music aspect with crafts because we believe that having something to physically focus on (such as a craft) can really help the user to fully relax before moving back into their schoolwork or work.
What it does
Melodivity returns multiple playlists based on the genre the user selects. After selecting a genre, the user can pick from multiple playlists within that genre to play. After that, the user is able to choose a craft to make while listening to music by selecting a category. The website returns a section of pinterest with many crafts from that category.
How We built it
We built melodivity by collaboratively coding on glitch. We brainstormed, collaborated, and debugged using discord for communication. We used github to bring together our code and our website is being hosted on a domain.com site. We used the Spotify API to find the 20 most popular genres on Spotify, and pulled the top playlists for each one. Selecting any playlist will then list the first ten songs in the playlist, and clicking on any song will also provide the album image, song name, as well as the artist(s). We then used Pinterest Developer Tools to embed Pinterest boards with different crafts into the page on the click of a button with javascript.
Challenges We ran into
We ran into challenges when using the Spotify API, as it was more challenging to implement than we originally thought. We also had to come up with solutions when we realized that some features of the Pinterest API we wanted to use had been disconnected.
Accomplishments that We are proud of
We are proud of bringing together an MVP for this project in such a short amount of time. While we ran into problems when coding, we were able to successfully debug them or just continue moving by utilizing a different feature.
What We learned
We learned how to set up an efficient workflow for a team of coders, how to integrate APIs into projects, specifically the Spotify API, and to launch a website with a custom domain. We also learned a whole lot from the workshops that HobbyHacks hosted through zoom throughout the hackathon.
What's next for Melodivity
In the future, we hope to curate playlists based on the user's spotify streaming data, to make the playlists more unique and to have a wider variety of crafts for the website.
Built With
api
html/css
javascript
spotify
Try it out
melodivity.space
github.com | Melodivity | where melodies meet creativity | ['Gabriella Miesner', 'Madhu Vakkadala', 'Christina Tan', 'Joanne Chen', 'Jennifer Wang'] | [] | ['api', 'html/css', 'javascript', 'spotify'] | 38 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/peach-jams | Original Album Image
Altered Album Image
Inspiration
During COVID-19, we noticed many people posting about their favorite songs and proudly sharing their music albums on social media. All of these posts from people around the world inspired us to create a website that allows users to customize their own album covers. We hope to provide young adolescents and anyone who enjoys music the opportunity to show off their spirit with their favourite albums with a twist of their personality and creativity.
What it does
Peach Jams is a web application that allows users to upload any image and transform it into a unique album cover, personalize it with different filters, and download it straight to their computer.
How we built it
We built Peach Jams in
HTML
,
CSS
, and
JavaScript
utilizing two JavaScript libraries:
p5.js
and
CamanJS
. The site was made in
Glitch
which it was then hosted there and redirected to our own domain,
peachjams.tech
.
Challenges we ran into
Our first challenge was deciding on an idea together as we were debating on different categories. After brainstorming we were immediately able to jump right into coding! For our programming challenges we ran into having difficulties with uploading the image, making the image a specific size, formatting and sizing the image, and changing the image colours. With some research and effective communication we were able to implement and solve these issues. Another challenge that occurred was when we were all working on the HTML, CSS and JavaScript files. With 5 people working on their parts, they often overlapped. Our solution was to either go on call with one another and talk through our process or text it through our chat. It worked well and we were able to come to our goal of making this application.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Our group is made of people from multiple countries, so we are very proud of coordinating and working together across different time zones. We met just before the hackathon started, so we are also proud of being able to quickly come up with an idea, agree with one another, and work well together despite never having met each other before.
What we learned
As a whole, our group learned a lot from participating in Hobby Hacks. (This was the first hackathon for two members, so they got to learn how a hackathon works!) We learned how to upload and download images from our own computer and implement them in our own web application and how to utilize different JS libraries. We also learned a lot more about using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript together to create one comprehensive website.
What's next for Peach Jams
There are multiple different features we would like to add to Peach Jams to give our users more options while customizing their album covers. Some of our ideas include adding filters of our own design, fun stickers, and animated emoticons. We’d also like to add a feature where users can upload their album photos directly to their music streaming app or social media platform.
Built With
caman.js
css
domain.com
html
javascript
p5.js
Try it out
www.peachjams.tech
peachjams.tech
github.com | Peach Jams | Do you admire music and art? You’re at the right place! With Peach Jams you can add your flavour and customize your music album colours and add your twist to it! Easy and accessible at your service. | ['Eileen Garcia', 'Deanna O', 'Chelsea Bishop'] | [] | ['caman.js', 'css', 'domain.com', 'html', 'javascript', 'p5.js'] | 39 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/regional-recipes-xnweld | Inspiration
Our team was inspired by our newfound appreciation for cooking that we nurtured during the quarantine. We got very tired of eating the same food everyday and found ourselves frequently searching for new recipes. However, while doing this, we realized that there wasn't a single website that compiled all the recipes from around the globe so we set our minds out to accomplish this!
What it does
Our website allows users to easily access countless recipes at their fingertips. They have the choice of selecting a recipe through a form or directly searching by country. In the form, users are given the opportunity to select a country and the option of selecting between breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert. Afterwards, they can navigate back to the homepage and try another recipe.
How we built it
We used a combination of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap in order to make our website. We divided tasks among ourselves and utilized google docs to stay organized. We also used Discord to communicate and make decisions as a team.
Challenges we ran into
Throughout our project we ran into several challenges. As beginner HTML, CSS, and JavaScript developers, we had to do a lot of research and trial and error to engineer our desired layout. We had issues trying to get our form to work correctly as well, but we managed to debug those errors while learning and gaining valuable experience.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of being able to create a functioning website with multiple pages in a short period of time. We were able to create a form that filters recipes and takes you to different pages depending on your selections. We also were able to create a drop down menu so that users can view all the recipes for a certain country. During our time working on this project, we were able to gain a deeper understanding of web development.
What we learned
We learned many things while working towards creating a user friendly and helpful website for beginner or expert chefs! We learned how to center elements, the best color pallets to use when designing a website, how to add in a carousel and images into the top of a web page, and how to use and make reactive forms.
What's next for Regional Recipes
Our future plans for our website include:
Broadening our selection of recipes
Comment and rating section for each recipe
Allowing Users to submit their own recipes
More filters for the Recipe Match Form feature
Enable the user to search for similar recipes using a search bar
Built With
bootstrap
css
html
javascript
Try it out
github.com | Regional Recipes | Stuck at home? Regional Recipes is here to help you get your chef's cap on with recipes from around the world! | ['Cindy Guo', 'Mariam Khan', 'Juana Ng', 'Heaven Kadro'] | [] | ['bootstrap', 'css', 'html', 'javascript'] | 40 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/grow-me | Our Logo
Website
Plants Info Page
Plants Info Page
Plant Information
Plant Information
Plant Information Mobile View
Virtual Garden
Garden Log
Inspiration
Earth’s population is increasing, but its land is not. We decided to create a gardening app to help anyone to create a sustainable farm in their very own home while supporting local farms.
What it does
If you are looking to escape from the daily stresses of life or are looking to become a master grower Grow Me is for you. With information about 400,000 plants you can grow virtually anything in your backyard! Grow Me can help you plan and track your garden efficiently and effectively with our virtual garden planner and receive daily reminders to water your plants.
How I built it
The front-end was built with HTML, CSS, React, and TypeScript. We used trefle.io as an API for our project. We also used RxJs for asynchronous state management. The back-end was a combination of Firebase and Java + Spring.
Challenges I ran into
The first challenge we ran into was finding an API or library with the data we wanted. Even after we found a good API, we needed to set up an RxJs store so that data calls could be made effectively and asynchronously. Finally, it was a challenge to make the virtual garden portion of our project.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We’re proud that we were able to fetch, display, filter and sort the data, and allow users to create a virtual garden. We're also proud that we are able to develop the front-end and the back-end.
What I learned
As a team, we learned how to use APIs to fetch data, and how to create a backend with Java and Spring. We also learned a lot about gardening and plants.
What's next for Grow Me
We would like to create a GrowMe community that will support and encourage new growers to turn their backyard into a mini farm. We’d also like to improve our database by adding more varieties and info of our plants. Ideally, we'd also like to generate the virtual garden from a satellite image, and calculate amount of sunlight, etc. using Machine Learning. We are also going to try to get an SSL certificate and make our website secure. We believe with more detailed data and more features our project can become a real company!
Built With
css3
firebase
html5
java
javascript
node.js
nodemailer
react
rxjs
spring
typescript
Try it out
grow-me.us | Grow Me | An app to revolutionize the way gardening is planned and executed. | ['Siddhartha Chatterjee', 'Satvik Balakrishnan', 'Humza Dalal', 'Rohan Bodke'] | [] | ['css3', 'firebase', 'html5', 'java', 'javascript', 'node.js', 'nodemailer', 'react', 'rxjs', 'spring', 'typescript'] | 41 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/tinderfy-x823bk | logo
Inspiration
When we started this challenge, we all realized that the one thing we all had in common was our love of music. We wondered if there was a way to create the ‘perfect’ playlist, based on our individual tastes in music. That is when we came up with the idea to use Spotify’s API to create a webapp that recommends new music based on a user's liked songs.
What it does
Tinderfy is a webapp that allows users to discover new music by playing short clips of songs, which the user can then ‘like’ or ‘dislike’. Songs that are liked will be added to a Spotify playlist and similar music will be recommended. Songs similar to ones that the user disliked will not be played.
How we built it
We build our webapp using Spotify's API. The languages we used include HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Python.
Challenges we ran into
We faced many challenges during this project. We’ve had to convert our code from Python to Javascript so that it worked with our react app, which was difficult. Also, connecting the frontend and backend was a struggle.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We were able to display the Spotify songs on the screen after much struggle, so we are proud that we were able to do so with the help of our mentors.
What we learned
Throughout this experience, we learned how to use JavaScript, since that was not a language any of us were familiar/confident in before. Some members were competing in their first hackathon, so they were able to expand their skills in front end web development. We split up the work based on our skills levels, since some members were more experienced with backend work, while others worked on frontend.
Built With
api
css
html
javascript
python
react
spotify
Try it out
github.com | Tinderfy | Like Tinder but with Spotify | ['Jayanti Upadhyay', 'Tahjeira Cameron', 'Sarah Chun', 'Riya Anadkat'] | [] | ['api', 'css', 'html', 'javascript', 'python', 'react', 'spotify'] | 42 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/daybreak-9zix07 | Daybreak
The help menu (!daybreakhelp) displays instructions and commands.
The bot automatically starts playing music when you send a message into any channel.
Using IBM Watson's Tone Analyzer, the bot reads the sentiment of the messages sent in the server.
Inspiration
When we were first brainstorming ideas, one idea that came up was a program that recommends music based on your facial expression, using machine learning to recognize the emotion on your face. None of us knew how we would implement this, so we decided to do something that would analyze the sentiment of your text instead. Because we were using Discord as part of the hackathon, we came up with the idea of coding a Discord bot that would analyze the mood of the server based on the messages that were being sent.
What it does
Daybreak keeps a log of the latest messages sent in the Discord server and automatically streams music through a voice channel based on the primary sentiment detected in these messages.
How we built it
Using the library discord.py, we programmed this Discord bot using Python. We also used IBM Watson's Tone Analyzer AI to read the sentiments in the Discord messages. To play music, our bot downloads songs from Youtube and streams them through the voice channel using Python's library youtube-dl. We created our own "playlists" of Youtube links to play depending on the sentiment of the channel—for instance, we'd play happy music when the bot detected joy, we'd play intense music when the bot detected anger, and we'd play soothing music when the bot detected fear. We deployed the bot onto Heroku so that the bot would run continuously.
Challenges we ran into
We had difficulties collaborating on the code at first, since repl.it didn’t support some of the libraries we were trying to use. We compromised by collaborating on the repl.it link for whatever did work on repl, and working offline on the parts that used libraries that repl didn’t support (like ffmpeg, which allowed the bot to play the music).
Accomplishments that we’re proud of
Creating a bot that runs smoothly and continuously
Being able to stream music through the voice channel with relatively high quality and no crashing (it used to crash every time we streamed music)
What we learned
How Discord bots work
How to code a Discord bot in Python using discord.py
How to get the Discord bot to join/create channels, send messages and embeds, and stream music
How to download music as mp3 from Youtube using youtube-dl
How to deploy a bot to Heroku
What's next for Daybreak
Allowing the bot to pull music from anywhere online instead of from our own playlist, perhaps using the Genius.com API or Spotify API to get songs based on rhythm or lyrics to match the mood
Adding commands to stop the music or skip songs
Built With
discord.py
heroku
ibm-watson
python
Try it out
github.com
discord.gg | Daybreak | A Discord bot that plays music based on the server's mood. | ['Caroline Dinh', 'Sarika Bhatta', 'Jessie Cheng', 'Sam Lim'] | [] | ['discord.py', 'heroku', 'ibm-watson', 'python'] | 43 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/mood-axqf7z | Select a mood and a flavor.
You'll be given a different song reccomendation for each different flavor.
Finally, read the description and click on the link to listen!
Inspiration
I noticed that my Spotify library was a mess of different mood playlists.
What it does
You select a mood (good, vaguely dissatisfied, bad), then a flavor of that mood, and you'll be given a song I like to listen to.
How I built it
I used repl.it's HTML/CSS/Javascript editor to build the website, then deployed it in Netlify.
Challenges I ran into
Figuring out how to use Javascript was a challenge because I've never used it in any of my projects before. I had to do a lot of Googling to figure out how to make it display elements/text on the page but knowing about classes/variables/switch statements from previous CS classes was pretty helpful.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I really like how the design came out, and that the website was fully functional in the first place.
What I learned
I learned how to use Javascript to take user input, display it on a page, and show/hide elements.
What's next for mood
I'm going to try and make the Javascript more efficient because currently, it instantiates a new song object based on a switch statement after the "get song!" button is pressed. I want to find a way to read an excel file so instead the process would be flavor chosen --> within that sheet randomly choose a song to display --> write values into array --> display based on array index. I'm more familiar doing this with python/using arrays but hopefully, I can transfer that knowledge into using Javascript.
Built With
css
html
javascript
Try it out
mood-rec.netlify.app
repl.it | mood | A simple song recommender based on my music taste. | ['Cynthia Yan'] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript'] | 44 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/synesthesiacs | synesthesiacs
Here
is the link to the compete (~2 min) demo video playlist!
Team members
Anoushka (
ankasengupta
)
Esha (
e5ha
)
Shanice(
shanicesmith98
)
Inspiration
We were inspired by the phenomenon of
synesthesia
which, to some, can manifest as seeing music in colors!
What it does
The user listens to music through their Spotify account and the website changes colors according to the notes that are being played.
How we built it
The frontend is built using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and the backend uses python. We also used the Spotify API and the SpotiPy library.
Challenges we ran into
Our team members were all at various timezones and different levels and skillsets, but we're proud to say that we made it work.
Accomplishments that we’re proud of
We were able to come up with a complex, developed idea and worked on it without even meeting in person, despite living in different timezones! None of us had ever used APIs before, making it an exciting new experience.
What we learned
Even if something isn't within an individual's ability, that's what a team is for; to combine skill sets and produce something never seen before.
What's next for synesthesiacs
We hope to further develop the site, smoothing over bugs and aestheticizing the webpage and color display.
Built With
autodesk
css3
flask
html5
javascript
python
spotify
spotipy
Try it out
github.com | synesthesiacs | A website meant to mimic the neurological phenomenon of synesthesia, converting music into art! | ['Anoushka Sengupta', 'e5ha'] | [] | ['autodesk', 'css3', 'flask', 'html5', 'javascript', 'python', 'spotify', 'spotipy'] | 45 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/skillshare | Register Page
Login Page
Home Page
Home Page
Chatter Box
Add Your Hobby like this
What it does
It's an application where you can show your passion for cooking, Arts & Crafts, and any other skills of yours. After uploading your favorite skill with a description, whose skill you like the most and you really want to get connected with him/her you can chat with them on this app.
How I built it
It is built with ❤️ using flutter, firebase storage, firebase authentication, firebase database, cloud Firestore.
Challenges I ran into
How to store the uploaded image using firebase storage on the app so that it can be seen by everyone. And also how to use the cloud Firestore for making others chat.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We have created a hack that combines code with your favorite pastime activity. And that's what we have to do in this hackathon.😊
Built With
android-studio
authentication
cloud-firestore
dart
database
firebase
flutter
storage | SkillShare | A hack that combines you with your favorite Hobby! | ['Sneha Gupta', 'Mona Srivastava', 'Simran Srivastava'] | [] | ['android-studio', 'authentication', 'cloud-firestore', 'dart', 'database', 'firebase', 'flutter', 'storage'] | 46 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/escape-class-room-oexqpl | Project Details and Explanation:
Since you can’t actually play our escape room, here is what would happen if you did (also refer to our video) →
Upon looking around the room, you find an index card saying “:) most to least faces :)”. This is a hint that the passcode into the chest is based on the platonic solids, in some order of least to most faces. There is also a poster on the wall with this same “:)” and a diagram of the faces of the platonic solids to serve as another hint to play around with them. After seeing the single letter options you decide on the code THODI (tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, then icosahedron in order of faces).
Once you open the chest, there are a bunch more shapes and then a sort of faucet-looking item. After moving around with the faucet in hand you realize that if you get close enough to the sink the handle teleports to the faucet. Upon looking around the room you realize that there is both a watering can and a plant, and a poster of photosynthesis that suggests watering that same plant. If you walk to the sink with the watering can, it fills up with water, at which point you are able to water the sunflower. The sunflower grows and hits the ceiling, releasing a CD that falls from a moved ceiling tile.
At first, a CD seems to have no place in this classroom, but upon looking around you see a CD slot connected to a projector. If you get close to the CD slot while holding the CD, it goes right in the slot and a projection of the periodic table appears on the white board. Upon close inspection, you realize that it is missing a few elements. You search around the room and find papers with a bunch of different elements, and have to figure out which ones are already on the table and which ones are missing. You notice that you need to submit another passcode but this time on the teacher’s computer.
You look around and see the poster about what an atomic number is, and you realize the passcode must be related to this. You also notice a clue on the white board about sorting in alphabetical order, and you decide to sort the atomic numbers of the three missing elements in alphabetical order and enter the code 461474 into the computer. The teacher’s desk opens, and you have the final key. You run to the door, unlock it, and escape! You had some fun and learned along the way ;)
Our project today:
In a time where we are largely confined to our homes, virtual reality technology provides us an opportunity to explore new spaces - and new realities - without having to venture out into public. Escape rooms have always been a special activity for us to do with friends, and we wanted to utilize virtual reality to create a digital version of a beloved pastime. We aimed to combine our passion for escape rooms, gaming, and education in this project.
Having been out of school since March and unsure when we will return to the classroom we wanted to create a digital classroom space as the setting for our escape room. Because of our background with educational video games, we wanted to introduce an academic element, hence the science and math concepts that form the basis of our clues. We hope that students will not only be entertained by our escape room game, but will also learn from completing it.
We also designed this classroom in a way that it can be adapted and used for actual virtual learning in the future. We have had conversations with Dr. Fan and hope to pursue this idea of a “virtual classroom” (without the escape room element and more lesson based) in the future.
About our project:
Before the hackathon we brainstormed ideas and came up with the idea of the classroom escape room simulation but did not begin any physical work or create our project file. The UE4 project file was newly made at the beginning of the hackathon on saturday. We used the basic map and controls in UE4 for Oculus Rift as well as free downloadable texture packs from epic games. Our models are a mix of CAD models we made during the hackathon and open source models (we can provide a full list of resources used).
Blueprints:
We made all codes in this game completely independently, without any tutorials or open source work. If you want to see full blueprints we would be happy to send. :)
Backstory:
Anna and I met at the NYU Mechatronics lab last summer as interns where we predominantly worked with Unity 2D/3D making user interfaces for phD projects. We were rising seniors in high school at the time, and we became fast friends bonded by our passion for STEM. In January we began working for Girls’ Angle, a math organization based out of Cambridge, MA that works to get young women and girls interested in math. Under the guidance of founder and CEO Dr. Ken Fan, we have been exploring how we can use UE4 and virtual reality to help students visualize and understand higher dimensions. We hope to continue to develop this project and find other ways to use technology to enhance math education, particularly for underserved girls, like those who benefit from Girls’ Angle’s resources.
Cindy has studied animation and digital design at the Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon University, and will be attending the Digital Media Design program at the University of Pennsylvania this fall. She is interested in art for film, tv, and video games. While she is experienced in Unity programming, she contributes mainly to the visual elements of the project.
The three of us are all recent (this June!) graduates of girls high schools and going on to study engineering in college next year.
Full version (6 minutes):
https://youtu.be/s1Z3wyDstYk
2 minute demo linked below.
Built With
blueprintprogramming
cad
oculus
oculus-gear-vr
unreal-engine | Escape (Class)Room | Escape (Class)Room is a virtual reality escape room where users solve science and math themed puzzles to find the key to the door and escape. | ['Erin Donahue'] | [] | ['blueprintprogramming', 'cad', 'oculus', 'oculus-gear-vr', 'unreal-engine'] | 47 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/league-of-legends-helper | A look of the GUI of login
The form GUI (always remembering the user to not put their password)
After the user alredy put their info and it was correct, we display this message
The creeps per minute and gold per minute that a top should have in a match with a time length of 2 minutes according to our average data
After the match is over we display the player how their stats should look like using our averages data
Gathering information from past matches, the riot api only lets 100 queries per minute.
Inspiration
The main inspiration for this project was the idea of using one of my hobbies and building something that could enrich the player experience. The idea was to build a tool that could be easy to run, and does not add much to the screen while also helping the player to get better at the game. The tool needed to be easy to run since we needed it to not increment the fps of the player while running it and playing a match.
What it does
The tool uses data from older matches, it takes the data of the winner team and classifies the information of each player depending on their rank and tier and the role that the player had. After that, it analyzes the data and creates an average for:
Creeps per minute
Gold per minute
Kills
Assist
Deaths
Wards Placed
Wards Killed
Then it shows to the player the creeps per minute and the gold per minute while the player is in the match using the player live match data gathered with the riot API.
After the player ends the match, it shows the player how their KDA(kills,assist,deaths) should look like, how many ward should have been placed and how many ward should had been killed.
How I built it
I used a database that I found in riot developer discord channel that provides us with 10000 matches ids, and used the riot API to query each match data.
Then I classified each data depending on the conditions and saved all the data to a pickle file.
After that I created 2 types of gathering live data of the player depending on the user´s server(NA,LAN).
Finally I created the GUI to display the data and to gather the players info such as summoner user, the server and the role they were playing.
Challenges I ran into
I did not have matches ids to gather the data but after I joined the developer discord channel they helped me by giving me a JSON with matches id that I could use to query the information.
After than I noticed that the API only gives you information depending on the server, so I had to do 2 different scripts depending on the user´s server.
And finally in order to get live data from the riot API you had to submitted an application for the app you want to build, but this process takes 2 weeks. So I had to use the tournament API to gather information of the player´s match but it didn't gave me all the information that I was hoping so it reduced the features I wanted to add.
What I learned
I learned how to use the riot API since it was the first time using it, and also I learned how to use pickle as a way to save data without using a database or a cvc
What's next for League of legends helper
I will finish the GUI of the app so the player does not have to always use the terminal.
And I am hoping to use the data to able to train a ML and use it to analyze the heat map of the player and suggest different solutions on how to make good decisions in game.
Built With
league-of-legends
pandas
python
riot.api
Try it out
github.com | League of Legends Helper | A tool to help league of legends players stop being noobs | ['Estefania Jimenez'] | [] | ['league-of-legends', 'pandas', 'python', 'riot.api'] | 48 |
10,507 | https://devpost.com/software/ace-the-trace | GIF
GIF
stylized image 1
GIF
stylized image 2
GIF
stylized image 3
GIF
stylized image 4
GIF
edge detection
Inspiration
Frustrated by the lack of free and properly working Lightbox apps, or other apps that would make tracing or doing lineart easier, we decided to create this project.
What it does
Upon entering the website
acethetrace.glitch.me
, a stylized image will generate based on the default images. The website itself allows users to select:
an input image; and
an image to stylize the input image with
in order to create a new stylized image after clicking the button to "Work Some Magic!". We also have a way to perform edge detection on an image to create an image for easier tracing.
Using SparkAR, we're able to overlay these generated images on yourself or on a piece of paper so that you can trace and draw to your heart's content.
When might you use an app like this?
If you want to replicate the art that you like.
If you want to draw on any surface that is not paper.
If you want to replicate your favorite artists’ art styles!
To create fresh fusion art of any two images.
If you wish to be more environmentally friendly by cutting out the need for tracing paper
If you want to do henna art on your hands (or face!)
To test communication skills as a team building activity where one person can see an image and explain what to draw and the other person can only draw what they're told.
How I built it
We used ml5.js to perform the style transfer and edge detection. The website was made via HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
We also used Spark AR to create a filter for 2D objects in world view and implemented a picker UI for the user to choose what to trace from a carousel and gallery texture to upload their own images. Finally, we allowed for image flexibility by corresponding touch gestures -- panning, rotating, and pinching to scale the image.
Challenges I ran into
For the website, updating the website dynamically via the DOM was tricky when we were also generating the images as opposed to grabbing a current image. Currently, we do not have a way to clear the placeholder where new stylized images are generated such that the more stylized images you request, the more images stack on one another - you would need to refresh the page to clear the placeholder.
In the end, we were unable to figure out how to let the user rotate their image around its center rather than around a 3D plane due to lack of resources for guidance.
Another challenge was that a lot of us were new to machine learning and convolutional neural networks and AR. We’ve never done any projects involving them before, so we had to quickly learn and get adjusted in order to make this project possible. We’re thankful for all the youtube tutorials, documentation, and mentors who helped us along the way!
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We learned how to make our own CNN and apply style transfer on images via JavaScript alone! We also successfully implemented a UI picker that lets the user choose an image to trace from their photo gallery, as well as hand gestures for panning, rotating, and scaling the image.
Coming into the hackathon, we had no experience with machine learning and AR, and we’re proud to have learned so much in the past 24 hours!
What I learned
How to use Spark AR
How to generate lineart using machine learning
How to use AI to create unique art using AI to combine two art pieces
How to create scripts for lots of interactivity using JavaScript
How great ml5.js can be - so many built-in features!
What's next for Ace the Trace
Enabling users to upload their own images and save the generated stylized image to feed into the edge detector for easier tracing
Ensuring that only one stylized image is generated so that the images don't stack
A feedback system that alerts the user if their tracing of the lineart is not entirely accurate
Lifting the square image restriction for user-uploaded images.
Built With
css
html
javascript
sparkar
Try it out
allyourtracearebelongtous.online
github.com
github.com
www.instagram.com
acethetrace.glitch.me | Ace the Trace | Draw like a pro by tracing AI-generated images | ['Christina Low', 'kazisultana27', 'Anita Yip', 'Shareefa Bacchus'] | [] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript', 'sparkar'] | 49 |
10,508 | https://devpost.com/software/landmark-rvtxp9 | Team
Veer Gadodia
Nand Vinchhi
Email for contact -
veergadodia24@gmail.com
Inspiration
Have you ever walked past a monument or landmark site, wondering what it is and why it was built? Many questions pop into our heads, leaving us with a longing for more information.
Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has completely shattered the world, and the travel industry especially has been one of the hardest hit, with people not being able to travel, whether it’s for seeing family or personal growth and enrichment or discovering new cultures. Many people can no longer afford expensive tour guides in this time of economic hardship, not to mention the transmission risk of the virus.
When brainstorming, we were very clear that we wanted to create an app that would be most useful to people in real life, given the current circumstances. We believe that machine learning can be used to educate people about the important historical sites they visit and provide them with a simple interface to make travelling more informative and safe, as it requires no person-to-person contact, compared to large clusters of people travelling with a tour guide.
What it does
Landmark is a mobile application that uses camera vision to instantly recognize monuments and historic landmarks you have either taken or uploaded a picture of, and finds relevant and detailed information about it with external links, in the form of an easy-to-read flash card. The user can take the picture in real time at the site, as well as upload any previously taken picture, which is an especially common scenario and use case, as people often yearn to recount information or learn more about a site they visited in the past.
Landmark also provides a maps page, which seamlessly integrates with google maps features, and instantly finds the nearby monuments and historical sites that the user can visit, as well as information about these sites.
How We built it
React-Native for mobile app front-end
Flask for back-end and database + API integrations
MongoDB Atlas for storing user data.
Google Cloud Vision for camera vision model.
Tensorflow.js for another image classification model (we didn’t use this in our end product as Google cloud vision performed with higher accuracy)
Wikipedia API for getting flash card data.
Google places API for finding nearby sites
Figma for prototyping and UI design
Heroku to host back-end endpoints.
Challenges We ran into
The major challenge we faced was integrating react native with google cloud vision. Encoding the image into base64 was a major challenge, which took us nearly 2 hours to get over. The other challenge we faced was getting the wikipedia APIs to work properly.
Accomplishments that We're proud of
We are proud of creating a novel app that actually works at production quality. We are proud of integrating google cloud vision APIs, as well as google places, and wikipedia APIs. We are also proud of creating a responsive and clean UI, as we are relatively inexperienced in React Native.
What We learned
We learnt how to use the Google Cloud Vision API, Google Places API, Wikipedia APIs, MongoDB Atlas, and react native, given it was the first time our we had used react native in a real project.
What's next for Landmark
We want to make a more sophisticated system for getting the image for a monument. We would like to migrate our back-end to NodeJS for robustness and scalability, as well as host it via AWS or Azure, instead of Heroku. We would like to make the app more friendly to Android and older IOS versions. Lastly, we also want to solve any minor bugs and release this app on the app store and google play store.
Built With
figma
flask
google-cloud-vision
google-places
heroku
mongodb
python
react-native
tensorflow
Try it out
github.com | Landmark | An application that uses ML to identify monuments and landmark sites, and offers further information and links to educate the user on historical and famous landmarks. | ['Veer Gadodia', 'Nand Vinchhi'] | ['Most Advanced Technique', 'Best COVID-19 App (Google Cloud)', 'Wolfram Award for Top 30 Hacks'] | ['figma', 'flask', 'google-cloud-vision', 'google-places', 'heroku', 'mongodb', 'python', 'react-native', 'tensorflow'] | 0 |
10,508 | https://devpost.com/software/dream-portal | Submitted by: Ruhee Jain-
ruhj707@gmail.com
Mitali Laroia-
04042001mitali@gmail.com
Inspiration
When the pandemic began, the lockdown started and everything got indoors then the urge to travel, to explore new worlds,the desire to feel free while travelling inspired us to come up with this idea of
ANYWHERE DOOR
and work towards it's development.
We were all beginners at the moment but the will to create something interesting, to be able to live that moment of turning our imagination into reality kept us moving and motivated. When it finally could be made we called it the
DREAM PORTAL
which truly became a source of turning our dreams true, we were able to live that moment of joy and experience life once again!
## What it does
The app which we have created lets the user enter a desired location and then creates a virtual door through which one can enter into the the location virtually and experience that place with a 360° view and also can see the room left behind himself on the other end of the door which makes this project all the way more charismatic.
How We built it
We first started gaining information as to how and what skills were required in our process which took a long time as we were all beginners but we finally came across unity engine and learned how to work on that within three days and also we worked on A-frame to finalize the project. The incorporation of the 360° view gave us a really hard time and we were not able to move forward but after watching a lot of tutorials, we finally made our
DREAM PORTAL
.
Challenges We ran into
When the whole code was prepared and finalized, the task of uploading it to GitHub became really difficult as GitHub would not accept the code as it is so we had to break it into chunks of code and then upload it and that took a lot of time and made us anxious as to what would happen if we were not able to upload the code in time, but in the end we were able to make it and proceed further.
Accomplishments that We're proud of
When we first started we were complete beginners but as we progressed with our work we learnt a lot and have grown as developers. The project that we were able to make, gives me the confidence that we will give a tough competition to others and not only do we strive to compete but also strive to win this hackathon!
What we learned
We learnt a quite a number of things like the Unity Engine, A-frame.
Then we learnt never to give up and keep solving the problem until its resolved. This project not only increased our skills but also our confidence and motivation to keep growing and learning.
What's next for Dream Portal
We Will Create an application in which we will integrate Google Maps with our Idea and whenever the user will search a location, they will be able to experience how it feels to be there! Not only that we will integrate the nearby hotels and stores along with the view of the location. And we will keep updating it further.
Built With
c
c++
html5
objective-c
objective-c++
shell
Try it out
github.com
taj-mahal1.firebaseapp.com
www.canva.com | Dream Portal | A place where imagination meets reality! | ['Ruhee Jain', 'Mitali Laroia'] | ['Most Useful in Real Life'] | ['c', 'c++', 'html5', 'objective-c', 'objective-c++', 'shell'] | 1 |
10,508 | https://devpost.com/software/asegr | Inspiration
After spending a year at Tuscarora HS, being able to smell the cotton candy vapes throughout the entire school was a problem we should not have had to get used to. With that memory driving us, we devised an idea regarding the health and safety of students in schools, and planned to significantly decrease the amount of vapes at school.
What it does
The Vape Deterrence Unit (VDU) functions with
nitrogen-doped graphene sheets
, which reacts to the nicotine concentration in the air with a very low threshold, making it a perfect way to detect small traces of nicotine in the air. After the nitrogen-doped sheets react, they drop in voltage, allowing the digital multi-meter behind the sheets to communicate with the Raspberry Pi in the server room. The Pi checks to see if the voltage drop is enough to merit a silent alarm and sends an email with the report to the proper authorities.
What's next for temp
Now, all that remains is to truly build the device. If we were at an in-person hackathon, we'd be sure to 3D print our design, and have MLH provide us with the multi-meter as well as the Raspberry Pi. However, we're unable to do that due to the nature of the virtual hackathon. Our next steps would be to actually produce the device.
Contact us!
Aayush:
aayushdhiman@gmail.com
Kevin:
kevinlin12052002@gmail.com
Myer:
its.myerkim@gmail.com
Built With
pydmm
python
smpt
Try it out
go.echoar.xyz
github.com
docs.google.com | Vape Deterrence in HS Bathrooms | Our goal is to keep students healthier by deterring them from using vapes in highschool bathrooms, where we have found it to be a common problem. | ['Aayush Dhiman', 'Kevin Lin', 'Myer Kim'] | ['Most Creative', 'KuzoClass - Most Market Ready Startup'] | ['pydmm', 'python', 'smpt'] | 2 |
10,508 | https://devpost.com/software/x-wing-fighter | Closed wings
Open wings
Closed cockpit
Open cockpit
Inspiration
I just felt like making something cool, but also something that moved.
What it does
It's just a model
How I built it
I used solidworks
Challenges I ran into
None
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
None
What I learned
Nothing
What's next for X-wing Fighter
Nothing
My email is
AVrobocat@gmail.com
Built With
solidworks | X-wing Fighter | An x-wing fighter with moving wings and opening cockpit | ['Arush Vatul'] | ['Best CAD design'] | ['solidworks'] | 3 |
10,508 | https://devpost.com/software/raconteur-efkuhx | These are our code blocks
This is what it looks like on a mobile device.
Inspiration:
We've always loved to read books. So we were trying to think of a way to share our passion. During this process, we thought about people who would have trouble reading books. After a bit of research, we found out that over 940 million people suffer from some form of vision loss, and decided to focus on this demographic. We tried to analyze the market for products for these people, but only found paid and largely incompatible applications.
What it does:
Our app first gives instructions and information about the app to the person's companion/caregiver. It then interacts with the person through voice commands(this can be activated by shaking the phone). If the caregiver/companion chooses to interact with the app themselves, the app is made in a way that is friendly for them too. The app also resumes where the listener left off when a book is played after being stopped.
How we built it:
We used thunkable classic- a block based mobile app development for beginners much like app inventor.
Challenges we ran into
Getting legal free audio books that the users can listen without fear of copyright issues.
It was very hard to make the speech recognizer look for certain keywords in the voice commands
We had trouble thinking of a way that the user could activate voice commands during a reading(we decided to use an accelerometer)
Finishing the demo video on time
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Its Free!
No Copyright Worries!
Two of our favorite books were available on librivox(which means they are part of the public domain) and so we included them in the app :-)
What we learned
We learned how hard it is to make an app accessible for different kinds of people
What's next for Raconteur
We're certainly adding many more books and improving our UI/UX for caregivers.
Built With
thunkable
Try it out
drive.google.com
drive.google.com | Raconteur | Its a free audiobook app for people with vision impairment.(rbshamsu@crimson.ua.edu and tshamsu24@groton.org) | ['Redit Brook', 'Tsion Shamsu'] | ['Best Beginner'] | ['thunkable'] | 4 |
10,508 | https://devpost.com/software/job-share | Login page
Home Page
Inspiration
This was inspired by knowing people who always found it difficult to find a jobshare when they wanted to, we hoped we could make an aspect of this easier :)
What it does
It allows someone on the sight to search for a number of other people in similar areas wanting similar jobs, they can then connect up.
The sorting function allows users to fully customise finding someone they're likely to want to jobshare with, taking characteristics such as pay, hours, days, location and the job itself
How I built it
Using tkinter for the GUI and mysql for database handling
Challenges I ran into
Time, learning new thing
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Getting a working product!
What I learned
How to use SQL and tkinter to build an app
What's next for Job Share
A function where you can apply to jobs together - employers post jobs and applications can be made through the service
Built With
mysql
python
tkinter | Job Share | A way to allow people who want to jobshare to connect up and find other people to make appilcations with | ['Jacqueline Dobreva-Skevington', 'Isaac Skevington'] | ['Top 15 Projects'] | ['mysql', 'python', 'tkinter'] | 5 |
10,508 | https://devpost.com/software/studynest | StudyNest Web App
Match Page (Click "View All" on home page in the matches box to arrive here)
Team Name: Favs' Baddies
Inspiration/Problem
As loneliness is a well-known issue among youth and students, and one that is increasing exponentially due to COVID-19, we figured that it was up to us, as students ourselves to find a solution. According to Cigna's 2018 and 2020 national loneliness study, younger generations are experiencing loneliness at an epidemic level. In a 2017 survey by the American College Health Association, 64% of nearly 48,000 college students said they had felt “very lonely” in the previous 12 months. Not only that, the onslaught of COVID-19, has had a significant adverse effect on students’ mental health. In a new survey commissioned by the National 4‑H Council, 61% of students report that the COVID-19 pandemic had increased their feelings of loneliness. With virtual learning becoming more common-place, many students find themselves lonelier than ever with the lessened interactions with peers, the increased difficulty of meeting new people, and the noticeable lack of company while doing schoolwork at home. This studying by oneself, especially for long periods of time, can pose to be a monotonous activity. Not surprisingly, many students report that the desire to procrastinate is much stronger.
What it does
Our solution, StudyNext, is a social application that allows students to continually and easily find new study groups and study partners with whom they can break the monotony of self-studying, decrease procrastination, and enjoy learning.
Using a proprietary algorithm that takes in factors such as age, education level, study habits, personality types, and more (all of which are recorded in an initial survey and profile creation), StudyNext provides a list of potential study partners or groups, which users can look through to find optimal study buddy(s). Once users find a favorable study buddy, they can arrange a predetermined time (which increases student responsibility and lessens procrastination) for a coworking call, hosted through the StudyNest web application for digital security and safety. During the video call, users are able to access everything they need for their study session including a text chatroom, a digital whiteboard for drawings and images, and even a music bot for some focus music! The users can also friend their previous study buddies on the StudyNest platform and organize future sessions on or off the platform. Realizing the importance of having good peers, we have implemented a post-session rating feature where users can rate their study buddies on compatibility, which is not shown publicly and only used to refine the algorithm to better the experience for every user. This ensures that users most often work with the people that motivate and inspire them. As an additional motivating factor, StudyNest gamifies the studying experience by allowing users to earn points (for which there is a public leaderboard) and achievements through studying and coworking via the StudyNest platform. With StudyNest, users will stay on top of their studies, while having fun and meeting new people across the world!
How we built it
StudyNest’s proprietary algorithm was implemented using the Castell’s 16 Personality Traits and the dataset found on kaggle.com. With the dataset’s fifty-thousand unique data row values, it was possible to generate cosine similarity values from the complex yet integrated data. Using the cosine similarities, StudyNest implements the Rocchio Algorithm which averages the cosine similarities to retrieve the centroid values of similarity in relation to the rest of the dataset. The Rocchio Algorithm allows for the creation of the training/test validation sets that consist of the 167 shaped input data as the training and the centroid float values for the validation set. Fitting the data on K Neighbors Regressor from sklearn enables StudyNest to predict the centroid value in relation to the training data on a new set of input data. StudyNest proceeds to calculate the similarity in the backend by subtracting the differences in the predicted centroid closeness/similarity values between two sets of input data. Since the centroid values range from 0.85 to 0.95, a difference of 0.01 would result in a 90% personality similarity. Thus, by using the knr model, subtracting the difference between the two predicted values, and altering the similarity threshold should lead to the desired outcome of whether or not a particular pair of StudyNest users should be paired and what percent similar they are predicted to be.
StudyNest’s web platform is built using React and Firebase to optimize the platform as much as possible. Using frameworks like Bootstrap allowed us to create a clean front-end website, along with an efficient system to study with one another. We utilized libraries to make charts, provide whiteboards or documents for students to use, and token routes so only students can access it with the proper information. Not only does this protect people’s privacy, but it makes sure that you’re genuinely talking to another student, not just some bot. We use Firebase functions to deploy these routes using Express.js and also use it to send encrypted messages back and forth that only the users with the authorized token IDs can access. Overall, the web platform mainly used React and Bootstrap for the front-end development, meanwhile Express, Node, and Firebase were used for the back-end on storing data, authorizing tokens, and making sure matches filter through correctly.
Challenges we ran into
One of our most pressing challenges was getting our matching algorithm to a high degree of accuracy within the time frame. Because the data set was enormous, we couldn't just train the neural network over the dataset a large number of times, or the software would just crash. Additionally, we had some more minor issues with Firebase, with the Event Listeners not connecting to our console, leading to us having difficulty storing and recalling data.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Something we were especially happy with was the fact that we were able to create a functional neural network in such a short amount of time - especially one that has a degree of accuracy of over 80%! We are also very proud of our web design and how feature-rich, but easy-to-use it is.
What we learned
Because of the versatility of our project, all of our team members were able to gain deeper insights into multiple programming languages. However, our favorite part was definitely learning how to integrate all these different languages, APIs, and libraries - including front end, back end, and machine learning - into one compact and functional hack/product.
What's next for StudyNest
In the future, the StudyNest team will continue to improve and modernize group studying. Through continually developing our algorithms and data security, our application will be one that will become increasingly comfortable for our users. In addition, we aim to utilize virtual reality in the future to make group study from a distance seem closer than ever.
Emails -
sigola020@gmail.com
,
chrisxticona@gmail.com
,
calebkim32@gmail.com
,
jchen1@exeter.edu
Built With
bootstrap
css3
firebase
html5
javascript
jupyter-notebook
material-ui
node.js
numpy
pandas
python
react
sklearn
vue.js
Try it out
github.com
drive.google.com
studynest.xyz | StudyNest | The Tinder for Study Buddies | ['Joseph Chen', 'Swarith Reddy', 'Chris Ticona', 'Caleb Kim'] | ['Top 15 Projects', 'Best Social Connectivity Hack', 'Wolfram Award for Top 30 Hacks'] | ['bootstrap', 'css3', 'firebase', 'html5', 'javascript', 'jupyter-notebook', 'material-ui', 'node.js', 'numpy', 'pandas', 'python', 'react', 'sklearn', 'vue.js'] | 6 |
10,508 | https://devpost.com/software/the-new-maps-project | Visualize the Algorithm
Inspiration
Many people don't realize how great the threat of gerrymandering is, for it is not often talked about, but it can drastically shape democracy in the United States. In order to fight gerrymandering, I thought about using a computer algorithm to draw district without partisanship.
What it does
There are many components to the project, for there is a CSV value converter and a visualizer tool from text files. The heart and soul of the New Maps Project is the powerful redistricting algorithm written in java. It redistricts without using partisan data and creates neat and fair maps for any state in the Union
How I built it
Java is used to power the district drawing algorithm. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript were used for the web components, like the visualizer and the CSV converter.
Challenges I ran into
Gathering the data was a huge challenge, for no centralized resource has a CSV file of a state's town name, population, and lat/long values. All these pieces of info I needed for the algorithm and I was a challenge to find this. Also, developing an entirely new algorithm from scratch is incredibly difficult, especially when working with big data.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I created a CSV converter which takes tabulated info about a state's towns and population, and converted them into CSV files, which I can use for my project, bypassing the data collection hurdle. I also successfully made the algorithm and executed it to complete a redistricting in full.
What's next for The New Maps Project
We seek to publish full data from running the algorithms to all 50 states in the Union.
Email Me
vincent.cai48@gmail.com
, for more details
Built With
css3
html
java
javascript
Try it out
fervent-wing-8b254d.netlify.app
github.com
github.com | The New Maps Project | Fighting gerrymandering with a powerful and effective algorithm that redraws districts so democracy can work at its finest | [] | ['Top 15 Projects', 'Best Use of Google Cloud'] | ['css3', 'html', 'java', 'javascript'] | 7 |
10,508 | https://devpost.com/software/zoomin-ph5bfs | Feature 1: Event List
Feature 2: Zoom Background Randomizer
Examples of photos in the light-hearted array section
Examples of photos in the serious array section
Inspiration
With the virtual school year beginning, it's important to have all your links organized, as well as some fun during the meetings! This hack is practical yet witty, and a great addition to distance learning and virtual events.
What it does
This app organizes the multiple Zoom (or others like Meet) links one may have for school, activities, etc., provides various Zoom virtual backgrounds (fits the mood: the light-hearted ones are also helpful for a nice laugh/change in mood for the day!), and is similar to a calendar, but more straight-forward and with other fun perks.
Zoomin' uses core data for the user to create new events with meeting links, toggle for importances, notes, dates, and times. You can visit them on the day as listed on the table, and press join meeting to be hyperlinked to your meeting's link. You can also find a random zoom background on the other tab, with its categories being light-hearted (funny, with memes, backgrounds from shows, games, movies, etc.!) or serious (rooms, views). Once the meeting's done, click completed to delete that event from Core Data and thus from the app.
How I built it
XCode (Swift), Core Data, UIKit, and a bit of Obj-C for the DateFormatter
Challenges I ran into
Time, connecting the viewControllers (previousVC, identifiers…)
Securing the MVP: Had to exclude ‘start the day puns & memes’ tab
Appearances of innate elements like the navigation bar, bar buttons, tabs → Adding to AppDelegate
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Learning more XCode
Core data for the events
Connecting the view controllers together so that core data transfers
Debugging certain errors
Allowing users to download the image with an alert on Zoom BG randomizer to camera roll (ensuring privacy connections in info.plist)
What I learned
Background Randomizer
Hyperlinking the Zoom link & unwrapping (debugging)
More customizations like tint color (still need to learn more)
Creating and customizing the tab bar and navigation title
What's next for zoomin’
A cohesive, and customizable theme (fonts, colors)
Sort option for the table
Upload your own backgrounds and do not repeat the ones already used
Implementing Firebase for a login profile that syncs data
Integrate table to a calendar
Selecting icons depending on the event
Built With
core-data
objective-c
swift
uikit
xcode
Try it out
drive.google.com | zoomin’ | Zoomin’ through the day with organized meeting schedules and backgrounds | ['Abby Liang'] | ['Top 15 Projects'] | ['core-data', 'objective-c', 'swift', 'uikit', 'xcode'] | 8 |
10,508 | https://devpost.com/software/sportable | Sportable
Team Name: Hack O' Holics
Contact The Developers
Shreeniket.B -
shreeniketbendre@outlook.com
Devin.H -
qaqaqaaa111@gmail.com
Johnny.N -
johnnysuper17@gmail.com
Agnik.B -
agnik.banerjee@outlook.com
About Us
Shreeniket, Agnik, Devin, and Johnny are all rising sophomores living in the United States. Although we have different interests and experience in computer science, we all wanted to create a project that truly helps our communities.
Inspiration
Fitness exercises are very beneficial to personal health and physical well being; however, they can also be ineffective and potentially dangerous if performed incorrectly by the athlete. Exercise mistakes are made when the user does not use the proper form or pose. With gyms closed due to the pandemic, more people have started doing home workouts and physical education classes for school have gone virtual, meaning that coaches have been unable to help their students correct their form. Making an app that can give instant feedback to users when they do an exercise and finding a way to teach proper form more interactively will solve these problems, and change the scene for athletic coaching entirely.
What It Does
Our app, Sportable, allows for students and normal users to submit short clips of themselves, which, using computer vision, detects if the form is incorrect or not, and what they have to change. Look at the
README.md
in the
video-classifier
section of our repo to learn how this works. Our app also has features allowing users to learn how to to do a variety of exercises using AR (augmented reality). Sportable has special functionality for schools, allowing P.E. teachers to organize classrooms and assign workout assignments, which can be submitted by students through the app. A better explanation of what Sportable does can be found in the demo. We also made it so that the echo AR uses natural language processing to display a 3D model.
How We Built It
In order to build a form classifier, we scraped workout videos from YouTube in order to train to create a dataset, as we couldn't find a public dataset that contained videos of correct and incorrect form. We then trained a neural network, based on an Inflated 3D ConvNet architecture, loosely inspired from
this research paper
. Here is a visualization of what the neural network looks like:
Even though the model had a state-of-the-art architecture, because the dataset was only a few hundred videos long, results were inconclusive and we didn't incorporate the model in our final demo. Again, Look at the
README.md
of the
video-classifier
section of our repo to further learn about the model, and why it didn't work the way we wanted. Because of this, we didn't show this feature in our demo.
In order to send videos and information from the app we implemented a server using with Node.js MongoDB. There are major routes designed to serve both IOS clientside and Web client side. Both clients submit to the same route, but web client side will also use GET request to retrieve html files. For authentication, we store JWT in the user's cookie, and conveniently IOS's alamofire library also allows for cookie storage.
For building the VR aspects of our app, we used echoAR, a great tool that allows us to easily create and deploy AR applications. We created the UI/app using XCode and Swift, and a login website using HTML and CSS.
Challenges We Ran Into
Creating our own custom dataset of common exercises with correct and incorrect form and scraping the web for those videos was a time-consuming and difficult process. Even though we got hundreds of videos eventually, we still need more data to build a more accurate classifier. Sending videos from the iOS app to the AWS server was also challenging, due to poor documentation.
Accomplishments That We're Proud Of
We're proud of finishing a complex project in such a short amount of time and hopefully making an impact on the fitness/athletic training community.
What We Learned
We learned how to make requests between iOS client to an AWS server, as well as video classification with neural networks
What's Next For Sportable
Hopefully larger exercise form datasets will be created, so we can retrain our model and make it more efficient, as well as detecting a wider variety of mistakes in common exercises.
Built With
css3
html5
javascript
python
ruby
swift
Try it out
github.com | Sportable | Using AI and VR to Create a Physical Fitness Trainer | ['Shreeniket Bendre', 'Johnny Ni', 'Devin Han', 'Agnik Banerjee'] | ['1st Place', 'Best Use of EchoAR', 'Top 15 Projects', '3rd Place', 'Wolfram Award for Top 30 Hacks'] | ['css3', 'html5', 'javascript', 'python', 'ruby', 'swift'] | 9 |
10,508 | https://devpost.com/software/bacterial-fruit-detection | Inspiration
In africa, many die due to consuming unsafe fruit. There is not safe technology in Africa however to let people know what is safe and unsafe. Hence, I made a webapp that does exactly that
What it does
This project is able to filter out harmless and safe fruit using deep learning. Additionally if a fruit is harmful, it gives extra information about it such as why to keep safe from it etc
How I built it
I used flask, html, css, tensorflow, and keras
Challenges I ran into
It was quite hard to learn tensorflow and keras at the same time.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I am proud of making my first project using tensorflow and keras and neural networks.
What's next for Bacterial Fruit Detection
I want to deploy this project in Africa and make a better UI
Built With
css3
flask
html5
python
tensorflow | Bacterial Fruit Detection | filtering out safe and unsafe fruit using neural networks | ['Neeral Bhalgat'] | ['Top 15 Projects'] | ['css3', 'flask', 'html5', 'python', 'tensorflow'] | 10 |
10,508 | https://devpost.com/software/xpense-tracker | Introducing the 'Xpense Tracker'
Email ID of our members
dhanushpn420@gmail.com
liz362002@gmail.com
Inspiration
Coding for the Future!
What it does
Makes your live more organized by managing your expenses
How I built it
Using Python, Javascript, Html and CSS (Thanks to Atom else I would have been bored)
Challenges I ran into
Bugs, bugs and bugs the more and more I wrote code.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Hashing passwords and storing in database (with salting the password before hashing)
What I learned
Learned SQL and to work with databases.
Learned UI UX designing as well.
What's next for Xpense Tracker
To transform it into a Web App using the UI we already built.
Make your Life more Organised by Managing your Expenses with 'XPENSE'.
Built With
css
html
javascript
python
sqlite
Try it out
github.com | Xpense Tracker | Organize your life with Xpense! | ['Chaitanya Liz', 'Dhanush P N'] | ['Top 15 Projects'] | ['css', 'html', 'javascript', 'python', 'sqlite'] | 11 |
10,508 | https://devpost.com/software/feel-the-beat | How It Was Built
For the front end, I used React Native. For the backend, I used Python with the Youtube API (for searching videos), made a Flask API with a database to store preferences and call a machine learning model, which I trained using Keras. To get the data for the machine learning model, I created a script that downloads images off of Google.
adrien.bekker@gmail.com
Built With
flask
keras
python
react
Try it out
github.com | Feel The Beat | Your feeling today translated into the songs you play. | ['Adrien Bekker'] | ['Top 15 Projects'] | ['flask', 'keras', 'python', 'react'] | 12 |
10,508 | https://devpost.com/software/cyberninjas | Meme Review
Meme Review
How To Play
Introduction
Our Project for this Hackathon is a fun website where people rank their favorite memes... but with a
major
twist!
Get Started
As soon as you enter a username, you will be added to a game. There, other players will join you to compete. Once there are enough players, you will be presented with 2 memes taken from Reddit.
Choosing a Meme
When you are presented with the two memes, you will have 15 seconds to choose one. The major twist with our website is that the objective is not to choose which meme you like better! Instead, you need to choose which meme you think is more
popular
. To choose a meme, all you have to do is click on the it.
Scoring
If you choose the meme that is the most popular, you will receive one point. If you choose the less popular meme, you will get 0 points. After 3 rounds, each with 2 memes, the winner will be decided.
Rewards
If you win a round, you will receive
1 TRILLION POUNDS OF INVISIBLE GOLD!!!
How It Was Made
Aveek -
aveekmishra@gmail.com
Aveek created the backend of the project from scratch, including implementing the game logic, real-time communication, matchmaking, and more. Additionally, he helped a little with the UI.
Krishnan -
krishnans2006@gmail.com
Krishnan coded most of the CSS and HTML for the project from scratch, to set up the styling and template. He also coded a some javascript to implement a timer that counts down to show you the time remaining.
Aryan -
aryankini@gmail.com
Aryan also helped Krishnan with coding the frontend of the project, by optimizing it for mobile users by using JavaScript. In addition, he worked on coding the timers for the event sequences within the NodeJS server.
Harsh -
cyrixninja@gmail.com
Finally, Harsh helped Aveek with a few changes in the javascript files to manage the website better.
Inspiration
Our Inspiration for this project was the love of memes all of us share. All of us love memes, and we love coding websites, so we decided to make a fun meme game for this hackathon!
How we built it
Our Website was built using HTML, CSS, JavaScript (NodeJS), express, request, and socket.io.
Challenges we ran into
Some challenges we ran into were on getting the JavaScript loaded. It took us a lot of debugging to get the JavaScript and HTML to work together.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are very proud of successfully incorporating socket.io into our project. First, we thought it would be very hard and we should just make everyone play by themselves, but we challenged ourselves and tried hard and finally we got it working.
What we learned
We learned a lot about the languages and packages used for this project, and also about how to make a website with NodeJS. As half of our team was more experienced with Flask than with NodeJS, it was a very hard decision to use it, but it ended up making our website way better.
What's next for Meme Review
Next up for meme review is adding the feature of breakout rooms. We would like to add a set of public rooms and let the users be randomly assigned into one of them. We also want the ability to create private rooms, and we will work hard to code this and continue or awesome project.
Conclusion
This project took a lot of time, taught us a lot, and most importantly gave us that sense of accomplishment. We hope you enjoy our project and we thank you for your time.
Built With
css
express.js
glitch
html
javascript
request
socket.io
Try it out
github.com | Meme Review | Our project is a live multiplayer online game where the goal is to pick a meme that you think that the majority of the other players will pick! It is designed to be played by 3 or thousands of players | ['Krishnan Shankar', 'Aveek Mishra', 'Aryan Kini', 'Harsh Kumar'] | ['Top 15 Projects'] | ['css', 'express.js', 'glitch', 'html', 'javascript', 'request', 'socket.io'] | 13 |
10,508 | https://devpost.com/software/uplift-efficiency | Uplift Efficiency - The Productivity Boosting Alexa Skill
Menu
Day Planner
Productivity Timer
Screen Timer
Inspiration
Productivity and Efficiency have been 2 of the mostly discussed topics in the recent days with the work from home situation and e-learning.
I've faced many issues like not taking breaks at all or being distracted too much. On somedays I don't achieve all the tasks because I don't have a proper plan, or because I forget the time to begin a task.
There have been many such issues that I've faced. Not just me but many others have faced such issues.
Yes, there are a significant amount of mobile apps that can solve these issues. But mobile apps aren't the best solution after all. Sometimes you get distracted by the phone when you try to open the productivity app, or you've left the phone in another room.
But I knew that an Alexa skill to solve these problems would be much feasible as you always have Alexa in the same place, and it's active all the time. Also using only your voice is more efficient
Therefore, I analyzed the best features of few mobile apps, and also added few features that can boost your efficiency into one Alexa Skill, and it was called
Uplift Efficiency
.
What it does
Uplift Efficiency is a very user-friendly Alexa skill that you can start using by just saying "Alexa, open Uplift Efficiency" to any supported device.
It consists of 4 main features at the moment.
• Day Planner
• Productivity Timer
• Screen Timer
• Challenges
Day Planner
Organize your day and keep track of the tasks in your day.
Add all the tasks in a typical day including Sleep, Work/School, Sports and Exercises, Leisure and Custom Tasks.
You can add the begin time and the end time for all these tasks, then we'll arrange all the tasks in an order and make it your daily routine.
Then you can set reminders for the tasks in the day plan.
You will be reminded when to begin and end the tasks in your day plan.
Also you can edit the day plan or refer to it at anytime...
Productivity Timer
Boost your productivity by properly organizing your work-break pattern.
You can choose one clock out of the 3 available clocks to begin with.
You can choose between Pomodoro timer, 52/17 timer, Ultradian timer.
After setting one default clock you can tell you work session. (Eg: "Begin a work session of 3 hours and 30 minutes")
Then reminders will be set at every time you need to switch from work to break or break to work.
These reminders are just like any other reminder on Alexa, but they'll be set up automatically.
Screen Timer
Take care of your eyes; take a break while using devices with screens.
Similar to the Productivity Timer you can ask Alexa to begin a screen session and you will be reminded every time you've got to take a break and get back to work.
This works according to the 20 20 20 rule, where you take a 20 second break every 20 minutes to look at something which is 20 feet away.
Challenges
5 Day Challenges to boost your efficiency.
Just select a 5 day challenge and get started. Currently only 1 challenge is available, it is the sleep challenge.
In the sleep challenge you need to do 5 tasks on 5 consecutive days before sleep.
More challenges will be added in the future.
Premium
There is also a premium version. Currently the only advantage for premium users is setting up 4 accounts. Non-premium users can use only 1 account. But more features will be added in the future for premium users and customization will be allowed for Premium users.
How I built it
The skill was built using Voiceflow, Google Sheets, Alexa VUI Developer.
How each of the features were built
Day Planner
The users task names, begin times and end times were captured into variables and stored in a Google Sheet. Then they were arranged into order in Google sheets, then all data was retrieved.
The feature to set reminders was easy with the Voiceflow Reminder block.
When editing tasks and updating tasks the data was updated in Google sheets too.
Although the day planner feature didn't use many advanced technologies or much custom tasks it required hundreds of speak blocks, variables etc.
Productivity Timer and Screen Timer
The hour and minute was captured into slots within the intent, if the hour and minute is not defined by the user, the user will be prompted to say the session (hours and minutes). Then the data was entered into Google sheets. Then the number or breaks and work sessions were obtained, there was some custom code here too. After this the exact time to take a break and get back to work was calculated and reminders were set accordingly.
Challenges - Sleep Challenge
Firstly the date to begin the challenge was asked, after that the time the user goes to sleep was obtained through the day plan. After which the estimated task time would be deducted by the sleep time and a reminder would be set to the time the user should begin the task on the 5 days.
Custom code was used to get the user's timezone.
Contact Feature
There is a contact feature which users can use to send us a message from the skill.
The user's email address will be obtained (The user will have allowed permissions before-hand). Then the message will be captured. A simple zap (Zapier) is used to send a confirmation message to the user's email. Even we'll receive a message saying an user contacted and we can reply.
Premium
A one-time in-skill purchase can be purchased by the user. When the purchase is successful, a variable called premium_user will be set to 1. Others will have it 0. So the premium features can be accessed by the user if the user's premium_user variable contains a 1.
The feature to create multiple accounts and switch between them is done by altering the user_id. But the real user_id won't be permanently altered.
Visual User Interface
The Alexa Developer Console has a feature to develop VUI's using JSON. I built the VUI for devices with screens using the Alexa Developer Console.
Images of Building the Skill
Day Planner
The Contact Feature
Purchase Premium
Retrieving Data and deciding the clock type
Menu
Challenges I ran into
Day planner: I ran into a problem when trying to create and retrieve data too often within the conversation. Alexa would reply with "The requested skill has an error" It was difficult to solve it so I came up with a temporary solution as I didn't have a lot of time. But I'll come up with a permanent solution later.
Day Planner: The feature to edit tasks was difficult to make. It needed over 100 blocks.
Productivity Timer and Screen Timer: After an user sets a reminder for the first time the data isn't deleted. Then when the user sets a reminder again the same data of the first time is recurred. Deleting data in Google sheets wasn't possible as too much interactions would prompt users to errors. So, I had to develop it so that if the user has set a reminder already the data needs to be updated and not created again.
Productivity Timer: The pomodoro clock has short sessions, 25 minutes or work and 5 minutes of break, so it was difficult to set a lot of reminders if an user's work session is long. Since it required a lot of reminders and even Amazon didn't allow so much I had to limit the work session to a relevant time.
Challenges: There was a issue with scheduled reminders in voiceflow. It wasn't an issue from my side, but a bug in voiceflow. So, I had to calculate the time until the task and set a timer reminder, which was difficult.
Challenges: Then came up an issue with timezones, because now() in google sheets takes the current time in my timezone, but users are located in different timezones. So, I had to add a custom code to take the users current time and record it in google sheets instead of now().
VUI: It was very difficult to design the VUI for echo spot devices, since this was my first time developing VUI's it was difficult to design it.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Firstly, I am really proud that I finished developing at least a beta version within the hacking time.
Also I am proud about being the first Productivity Voice Skill with this much of features.
Simply I am proud about everything in Uplift Efficiency and how much I achieved within a short time.
What I learned
As I've never used the Alexa Developer Consoles VUI editor before I learned to develop VUI's.
A lot in Voiceflow. I used almost all the features in voiceflow and learned so much that I never knew about voiceflow and what could be done with it.
I learned a lot more...
What's next for Uplift Efficiency
Uplift Efficiency has many more features to be added and I need to make few changes too.
After that I will submit the skill for certification.
I have also planned to launch the skill on Product Hunt, as it can bring a lot of users to my skill.
The link below can be used to view the voiceflow project
"A Project by Senuka Rathnayake"
Contact email:
yosomapala@gmail.com
Built With
amazon-alexa
json
voiceflow
Try it out
creator.voiceflow.com
github.com | Uplift Efficiency | Boost your Productivity with Alexa | ['Senuka Rathnayake'] | ['Honorable Mention', 'Top 15 Projects'] | ['amazon-alexa', 'json', 'voiceflow'] | 14 |
10,508 | https://devpost.com/software/findbiz | Our Logo!
The About Us Page
The Dashboard Page
The Browse and Add Businesses Page
Inspiration
With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting numerous family businesses, we wanted to create a product that could support them in this time. We believed that we, as a community, should do all we can to help everyone flourish even in difficult trials. That’s how the idea of FindBiz was created. We realized that a platform where everyone could browse small local businesses could be of great help to everyone, especially the businesses, which could receive more patrons.
What It Does
FindBiz is a website dedicated to helping local and small businesses that are struggling due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We allow browsing of various businesses, allow users to add their own business, and allow users to create an account to see their contribution stats.
How We Built It
We used HTML, CSS, Bootstrap templates, and JavaScript to create our website. We started coding using Repl.it on 8/22 at 2:45 pm.
Challenges We Ran Into
It was difficult to take input from the forms and change the user display, as the JavaScript functions to do so were highly complex. However, after hours of perseverance, our hard work paid off. We also struggled with registering new businesses to the browsing businesses list, but were able to accomplish this through determination.
Accomplishments That We're Proud Of
We’re proud of the sleek UI of our website, as well as the easy-to-use forms that update information on our website.
What We Learned
We were able to hone our skills in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript throughout these hours of coding. We were also able to learn how to efficiently manage our time and communicate through an online means.
What's Next for FindBiz
While we accomplished many goals during this process, the future of FindBiz holds so much more! We want to add a more complex account system that allows users to friend other users and allows businesses to post and advertise about their products. We would also like to add live graphs and data tables that provide data on all of our website’s users, for example how many users we have a month.
Team Name: The Conditionals
Please contact
aishu.akku0406@gmail.com
if you have any feedback/questions.
Built With
bootstrap
css3
html5
javascript
Try it out
drive.google.com | FindBiz | FindBiz provides support for small businesses impacted by COVID-19. Users can find a small business to support or gain support for their own business. | ['Aishwarya Chakravarthy', 'Anvi P', 'Joanna Cheng', 'Anjali P'] | ['Top 15 Projects'] | ['bootstrap', 'css3', 'html5', 'javascript'] | 15 |
10,508 | https://devpost.com/software/moodtracker | Inspiration
Inspired by elevating mood journals and incorporating AI. With busy lifestyles, often times people don't realize the value of tracking mood and mindfulness.
What it does
MoodTrack allows people to track their mood by taking pictures, creating a dashboard, and connecting with medical professionals.
How we built it
We built it with HTML, CSS, JS and Tensorflow and JS. We created a Resnet50 algorithm trained on a Kaggle dataset of 30,000+ images. This model was incorporated with our website to allow for tracking mood.
Challenges we ran into
With team members across the world, it was difficult to collaborate. We also had a hard time connecting the model to our website but we solved this through launching the website on Netifly.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of our website, dashboard, and model.
What we learned
We learned how to collaborate as well as learn how to deploy AI models through a website.
What's next for MoodTracker
Once MoodTrack is launched, it will continue to grow through research and development/
Built With
api
css
face
html
javascript
python
tensorflow
Try it out
github.com | MoodTrack | Track your mood with MoodTrack | ['Divy Shah', 'Harsh Kumar'] | ['Top 15 Projects'] | ['api', 'css', 'face', 'html', 'javascript', 'python', 'tensorflow'] | 16 |
10,508 | https://devpost.com/software/recipeas | Email:
Samaynandwana@gmail.com
Submitting in XDHacks Continuation Track
Inspiration
Many people often struggle to decide what to make for dinner. Additionally, many people often don't venture out into different cuisines or variations of the dishes they eat.
What it Does
Recipeas attempts to solve the above issue by providing users with a personalized search engine. Simply put in one or more ingredients, and you will be provided with a wide variety of recipes of different type and cuisine. This will help people save time during thinking of what to make for dinner, and allow people to try different cuisines and food items that they may not have thought of.
How I Built it
The app was built using React.js for the functionality and the front end. HTML/CSS and a little bit of Material UI was used to style the app. I also used the NPM Package Manager and Github for version control. The Edamam API was used to help get access to the different types of recipes.
Challenges I ran Into
It was originally tough to get the style to be in a presentable way, so it took a lot of trial and error to get it in a pleasant way that the user would have an enjoyable experience using.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I am proud of my ability to use the Edamam API, since it was my first time using the API
What I learned
I learned how to do several new styling features with React and CSS. I also learned how to manage my time and critically think.
What's Next for My Project
Since our goal is to make Recipeas a globally accessible website, we attempt to implement a few features to make our website more usable for all. This includes adding translations in a wide variety of languages so the website isn't restricted into English speaking users, implement features for dietary restrictions, and to add an "On The Go" Feature: recipes specifically meant for when travelling.
This project was bootstrapped with
Create React App
.
Available Scripts
In the project directory, you can run:
npm start
Runs the app in the development mode.
Open
http://localhost:3000
to view it in the browser.
The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.
npm test
Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about
running tests
for more information.
npm run build
Builds the app for production to the
build
folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.
The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!
See the section about
deployment
for more information.
npm run eject
Note: this is a one-way operation. Once you
eject
, you can’t go back!
If you aren’t satisfied with the build tool and configuration choices, you can
eject
at any time. This command will remove the single build dependency from your project.
Instead, it will copy all the configuration files and the transitive dependencies (webpack, Babel, ESLint, etc) right into your project so you have full control over them. All of the commands except
eject
will still work, but they will point to the copied scripts so you can tweak them. At this point you’re on your own.
You don’t have to ever use
eject
. The curated feature set is suitable for small and middle deployments, and you shouldn’t feel obligated to use this feature. However we understand that this tool wouldn’t be useful if you couldn’t customize it when you are ready for it.
Learn More
You can learn more in the
Create React App documentation
.
To learn React, check out the
React documentation
.
Built With
css
edamam
edamam-nutrition
html
javascript
materialui
npm
react
react-native
Try it out
github.com | Recipeas | Get numerous different recipes by inputting the ingredients you have in your fridge! | ['Samay Nandwana'] | ['Top 15 Projects', 'Wolfram Award for Top 30 Hacks'] | ['css', 'edamam', 'edamam-nutrition', 'html', 'javascript', 'materialui', 'npm', 'react', 'react-native'] | 17 |
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