Inspiration
The inspiration behind this project was bringing most if not all entertaining environments into one place, where a user can use just one scroll bar to browse through their TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, etc.
What it does
This app enables its users to save different posts from different platforms in one place by saving their links it a database. Whenever there is a video, a reel, short, announcement, post, or tweet, the users can keep all of them in one web-page by sending their links to a discord bot. Then, the bot checks the validity of the link and sends it to the server, where it is processed to be shown on a web-page.
How we built it
The app consists of two parts: a discord bot and a web-app. First, we created a very simple app using node.js and express libraries. After that, we did a lot of research on how bots work and built one. As we continued developing, we installed packages to be able to listen to the commands being sent to the bot. Then, with some coding, we were able catch those commands to improve the way our bot and server interact with each other.
Challenges we ran into
One of the challenges we had was understanding how discord bots function. We spent quite a good amount of time on learning and have been able use this knowledge in our project. Another thing that we had to deal was terms and conditions set by different apps. This required us to read and understand what we can and can't do with the posts we received from the users.
Accomplishments
We think being able to learn how bots work, was our biggest accomplishment in this project. This gave us a lot of confidence on what we can accomplish.
What's next for Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V
Although initial inspirations were about creating all-in-one entertainment environment for a personal use, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V is more likely to change its focus and work on improving automation to build web-apps. In this path, the project is planning to make it possible for anyone to build web-apps with less than a click. We are planning to achieve this by using voice commands instead of regular keyboard commands.
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