Ally

You know when you meet someone at a party and the two of you promise to meet again... but you never do. Ally is a bot you can drop into a Telegram group chat that will encourage you to meet again.

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Inspiration

Exchanging LinkedIns at an event typically leads to... never again meeting. Even if you say you will!

What it does

Two people meet, they decide to meet again. They connect on Telegram, create a group chat and add our bot.

The bot asks them what habits they would like to adopt and on what cadence and then pings them using that cadence.

The app keeps a Duolingo-like tally of the "streak" the two people are achieving (have they really met, are they engaging with each other, etc.).

The app divides the various group chats into 😄 | 😐 | 💀 depending on how well your streak scores for the various conversations is going.

How we built it

Python backend + telegram API + mongoDB + React Native + gpt4

Challenges we ran into

Claude wasn't good at following our prompts, we spent a lot of time trying to get it to work but ended up using GPT4. Specifically Claude struggled to follow the expected output schema, and to generate RRULES.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The front-end of the phone app, the prompt for our AI model :) !

What we learned

We learned mongoDB, teamwork (we met yesterday).

What's next for Ally

We want to apply it to Whatsapp because the experience would be much smoother (the bot could drop the connecting users into a group chat via QR code) but to do that we need to verify a business account and use Twilio.

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