Inspiration
We've been in 8.01 for a week now and have yet to find friends/study buddies to do our p-sets with, so we thought we'd make an app to help students find others in their classes to study/do hw with! Since we wanted students to be able to easily transition from the world of dating to the world of academia, we tried to make our app a tinder/grindr clone.
What it does
(Ideally) you and a classmate match for a given class, then you get together to do some problem sets.
How we built it
Flask & React-Native.
Challenges we ran into
Half of our team was completely unfamiliar with both flask and react, but we taught each other as much as we could (and went through numerous online tutorials).
What we learned
We (the two less accomplished computer scientists) learned a lot about writing locally hosted webservers using flask.
What's next for Bindr
We'll try to implement a UI similar to that of tinder/grindr (the distinctive "swipe left"/"swipe right").
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