bRUSH

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Inspiration

Humans have made art since the beginning of times. There are quite literally cave paintings that were made millions of years ago! Creativity and passion for art is a deep part in all of us whether we see it or not. But do you know what's even better? - When you have to draw the most bizarre, random, funny thing you've ever heard - and that is Exactly what bRUSH is.

What it does

bRUSH is a brand new social media app that brings friends together with daily drawing contests. Each day, every single user worldwide gets a notification at a random time with a new, fun yet weird prompt for their art. The prompt is shared across ALL users meaning everyone draws the same exact thing. Oh, and you only have 10 minutes to draw, so you better start your masterpiece on time, or you'd have to (b)RUSHHHH!!

Once the time is up, everyone who drew for the day will be able to see their friends' "take" on the same prompt and that is when the fun begins! Every user is allowed to give away 1 Gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medal every day. Those should be given to the friends who had the best drawings for that day. Who will earn the most medals and become the leaderboard thrown holder? Well, it is time to find out!

How we built it

bRUSH was build using swift and swift UI and developed using Xcode. We integrated the RevenuCat SDK for easy and efficient business growth potential.

Challenges we ran into

One of the biggest challenges we ran into was the prompt creation. We debated whether we should AI generate the prompt for the day or if we should have human made prompt in order to keep them truly unique and fun. After all, if a user doesn't think today's prompt is the weirdest thing they have drawn in their life, it is probably not good enough for our app, lol. We opted into a custom ML algorithm that we can feed our weirdest ideas into, and it would learn the preferences for prompt. This would allow for scale later down the road.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of being able to create a social media app that actually works from the ground app. This isn't one of those Mock apps - we have everything implemented from the front to the back-end. Social medias are insanely complicated to create but the fact that we were able to achieve it and make our dream app come to life is something we are beyond proud of. We hope to be one of the champions of this hackathon in order to use all the amazing prizes as tools and opportunities for our app to grow and reach as many people as possible with our message - Creativity Matters!

What we learned

One of the biggest things we learned with bRUSH is the App Store publication process. We never published an application before and going through the process has been very challenging but also very rewarding. We also learned what it is like to work as a team on a large scale project. We feel like University work covers the basics of computing but when it comes time to develop software with a team, most people fall apart. We learned (through some pain but hey, learning is learning!) how to overcome these challenges and grow team-coding skills.

What's next for bRUSH

bRUSH is coming to the App Store and we hope it will catch on with as many users as possible so that it becomes the next big social media app since we believe it is truly a way for people to express themselves on social media without all the fake filters and fake smiles you see today. We hope to implement the new bRUSH ML algorithm soon as well.

In the far future, once the app grows, we hope to collaborate with businesses within the prompts and create international contests. For example a prompt would be to draw a new bag design for a chips company, which we will work with and actually produce the bag of whichever drawing had the most gold medals worldwide. These are just a few small ideas, but there is a LOT more to come very very soon!