CrowdStory

Write stories together.

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Inspiration

Will.i.am had inspired us with his opening speech at Hack the North 2022. We took his example of combining tech with music to heart. Rather than music we wanted to spread knowledge through other important skills, reading and collaboration.

What it does

CrowdStory is a web application that allows users to create open source stories that can be contributed by people all around the world and allows the reader to get a taste of many different experiences and thoughts instead of something said by 1 figure. Each story has ai-generated thumbnails and titles, constantly changing to fit the ever-changing story. Additionally, discover stories to add onto, like them, save them, share them, comment on them and more.

How we built it

We built this website in the Node.js environment using Typescript, React.js, mongodb, express.js and Figma to design our website.

Challenges we ran into

We had run into a lot of challenges while trying to host our backend on Heroku. Heroku unfortunately does not support typescript natively so that was a challenge to get around. We were also learning new things we had not done before, for example we had to make different directories for our frontend and backend.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We finished most of the features we intended do in the time that we had and learned many new skills.

What we learned

We learned how to utilize figma to design our websites and implement mongodb in a server configuration.

What's next for CrowdStory

We would like to try to expand this idea to something big that is used in English classrooms as a creative form of writing.

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