CampusCloud

Inspiration

The inspiration of this application stemmed from a discord video call, where the phrase “turn on your cameras, this is the only way we can see each other” changed from just a sentence into an idea.

We wanted to create an app specifically created by and for university students, to create a virtually social environment that could aid in reigniting connection, excitement, and the feeling of taking new chances.

What it does

Connects university/college students in a 1-on-1 format or in a group environment
- Integrates a video calling feature, allowing for the exchange of contact information and the ability to quickly make friends
- Also allows for text messaging and video calling using an avatar in consideration for users’ privacy concerns
Helps students interact and meet other students around the world, or in their own community
- Includes features such as searching for a friend in a specific program or year
- Features other channels created for different purposes such as studying together, chilling, playing games, networking, working out, and more
Helps maintain social activity and prevents COVID from affecting people's mental health

How we built it

CampusCloud was built using Flutter and Dart.

Challenges we ran into

Although we had many ambitious ideas that would have added to the experience of using our app, time was a big constraint as we had to learn to prioritize the most important features
Implementing certain features proved to be a problem, so once again we had to learn to prioritize certain features and details

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We came up with a great Idea that can help a lot of students, including ourselves
We actively communicated and gave constructive feedback as a team, allowing for a realistic but enterprising product
We were able to make a stellar, straightforward, and resourceful UI

What we learned

How to use different tools/browsers for UI/UX design applications & prototyping
- Specifically, we learned how to make full use of flutter's imports and how to use an emulator to fully test out program

What's next for CampusCloud

We want to be able to implement the other features/channels we couldn’t add this hackathon, including:
- Study, Games, Chill, Workout, Music channels
- Establishing a secure way to verify that users are students
- Allowing users to share socials with a click of button
- Creating a globe feature which allows students to see which countries they have virtually visited
- Provide a history list of people they have spoken to