Bounce

Taking a look at a post. Maybe I'll write a comment or bounce the post!
Maybe, I'll contribute to the bounce community and write a post of my own
Another great post that I get to enjoy!
Seems like a post has been bounced at UBC!
What a great post! Isn't it super excititing to see what people in your area are up to? Why don't we give this a bounce!
Just changing some of the settings...

Inspiration

Social media is often immensely disconnected from the physical world. Rather than continuing to live a life with all of our commonly used social media platforms being disconnected from the physical world -- we decided to fix this problem and build an application that would allow us to heavily incorporate our online social network and the physical world.

What it does

Bounce is a location-based social media app where the posts you see change based on where you are. You see posts that were posted around you, and you can "bounce" them to help them spread further across the world. The posts you see are either posted by people near you or spread from far away by people who thought it was funny, interesting, or worth sharing in general.

How we built it

We used React Native to build the iOS app. We used Node.js for the backend, hosted on Azure. We also created a web application to allow users to use Bounce in the browser. Additionally, we built desktop applications for Linux, Windows and OSX, using electron.js.

Challenges we ran into

We originally wanted to make an Android version but had difficulties with compatibility using React Native and sadly had to abandon it. To account for the loss of the Android project, we decided to build a web application and multiple desktop applications for Bounce.