companion

keep it social at a distance

Inspiration

Are you:

• Travelling alone?
• Self-quarantining alone in your room?
• Want to start a conversation with other travellers/stayers around you but everyone must keep a social distance?

Boi do we have something for you

What it does

• Messaging: talk to other folks in a chat room, or be assigned to a random 1-1 conversation
• Collaborative games: cooperate to solve puzzles
• Movie streaming: I mean Shrek marathon
• Art gallery: where people can showcase anything that they're proud of
• Customer service support & Emergency contact

How we built it

Backend is express.js. Frontend is built with React and some other open-source libraries for convenience when building frontend components.

Challenges we ran into

We had to come up with features that are relevant and could appeal to potential users.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We made a website! And it be running!!

What we learned

Some Javascript. Some application of graph algorithms we saw in class. Some frustration when using JS.

What's next for Companion

• We want to make it more lightweight and easier to deploy
• Better gaming and messaging experience
• Add more content as the users request

Built With

• express.js
• javascript
• react
• socket.io