Echo | Devpost

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Inspiration

"Hey person I just met - you're pretty cool. That's pretty neat, right? Us making a connection and all. Hey, maybe, just maybe, it would be cool to talk after this whole thing is over. What's your number? Which one of these people on Facebook are you? You got a snapchat handle? What about Twitter? Hey I need your email to connect with you on Linkedin."

That's a bit much to be honest. In fact, exchanging personal information is needlessly complicated. Even business cards, which are designed for the purpose of distributing personal information quickly aren't perfect. For one, why would a recruiter care about your snap stories and why would a new friend care about your linkedin? We're hoping Echo brings a versatile, efficient way to exchange information as painlessly as possible.

What it does

When joining Echo, we ask you to input any relevant social media data - links to your facebook, linkedin, your twitter handle - you name it. Whatever you want to share, you can. When meeting someone, we use an NFC Connection to allow you to choose what data to send and send it to the Echo app of the person you just met and vice versa. Your newfound contact is now stored in a database in your app, along with everything they chose to share with you.

How we built it

Echo, to the extent that it is built, is Android based, although we hope to expand to iOS at some point in the future. NFC is supported by Android Beam, Guest Functionality is integrated with Twilio, and Firebase is used to handle our database of users.