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Inspiration (What problem are you trying to solve?)

To re-establish human connection, bridging the physical and digital world, emphasizing spontaneous, quick friendship meetups that simultaneously build a deep bond.

What it does (our prototype)

Hey is an on-demand social platform designed to foster deep, real-world friendships by pairing like-minded individuals for shared local activities. Backed by a robust database and an integrated Map API, the app seamlessly translates digital matches into concrete physical meetups at restaurants, cafes, or sports venues. It leverages an advanced AI to analyze personality traits for highly compatible group curation, while keeping users completely anonymous until they feel comfortable revealing their verified identities, removing any biases that they may have. Ultimately, Hey! acts as a smart, safe social catalyst that handles the logistics and compatibility checks so users can focus on building genuine human connection.

Compatible with Apple and Android.

Challenges we ran into

Having to fetch places from external libraries
Integrating the matchmaking algorithm from the LLM
General system design merging the frontend, backend, and the database

Who would use it?

Everyone, people who yearn for deep in-person connection

How did you implement your prototype?

Using conventional system design for app development and server hosting digitalocean as the hosting service, we hosted the backend: flask(python) alongside with the database: sql. The UI was built with the Kotlin framework which was connected by the restapi with the backend server. External libraries and APIs such as third-party LLM APIs and OpenStreetMap libraries to fetch location metadata.