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The main page of the website.
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Creating a post.
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Looking at the info for a post.
Inspiration
As Freshmen to Purdue, we found it hard to impossible to go through the various resources online to join GroupMes and Discord Servers for our various clubs and classes. There were simply too many student created communities online and no centralized place with which to view them.
What it does
Our solution: An aggregator for communities of Boilers, maintained and updated by Purdue students. Anybody can submit a community, attaching a title, link, description, and list of tags. Once the post gets approved, it becomes publicly available. Users can upvote and downvote it, with posts that become too downvoted getting automatically removed. The list is searchable and filterable by the title and tags.
How we built it
The website was built with React and Firebase. We used bootstrap for help with styling.
Challenges we ran into
Both of our members had minimal experience with both React and Firebase coming into the hackathon, so creating the webapp in general and deploying it was a new experience. Many of the now obvious questions ("how do javascript arrays work", "what is the difference between firestore and realtime database?") were things we had to research. Adapting to unfamiliar technologies is a challenge in and of itself.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're proud of getting it to a state where we can deploy it to its on domain! Neither of us had had created a website with a custom domain before, so being able to type in boilerbulletin.com and visit it was amazing.
What's next for Boiler Bulletin
Now we want to make the site look better and less bare bones. We also want to implement a criteria system and manual reviewing for various posts to better insure quality.
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