Inspiration
The advent of the ππ¨π―π’π-ππ has turned all of our lives upsides down. Changes in social dynamics due to local restrictions impacted human behavior and led to a shift in mental health.
Because we believe the power modern-day technologies have to help people to live a decent life, we developed Embrace. It is an application, empowered by mental health impact, that helps social influencers and people around the world to connect and interact.
What it does
Embrace is a smart web-app that is built for helping social media users gain the social media traction they need to keep their doors open. We hope to make the lives of people, and influencers on social media easier, so they don't have to search for #hashtags and decide which ones are the best themselves, instead they can rely on our app to decide the same automatically.
-Get connected with like minded people. -Share experiences and uplift yourself as well as others. -Proactively protect the mental and physical health of users -Secure Data Storage which is decentralized -Increase awareness on mental health
How we built it
Embrace is crafted with β€οΈ. The front-end is made in React.js with Tailwind CSS. The authentication is done via Firebase. The backend is running on GCP's instance and for the feature extraction & classification, we're using Inception-v3 trained with ImageNet [refined hyperparameters & underfitted (x0.65)] as the dataset.
Challenges we ran into
A lot! As I previously mentioned, the whole execution was done from scratch, even the advent of idea in our mind literally came during the opening ceremony. There were lots of challenges on our way. First, because we are all online and spread around the globe, it was somewhat difficult for us to be communicating during the process. We also spent a great deal of time discussing ideas for the project. We have reached a final decision on what to include in our project after we had a couple of calls among team members. After we settled on the idea, we have separated the work according to everyone's skills. Fabasherah was the product manager. She deisgned outlook and prepared our product for promotion. Mobasherah was primarily working on the Front-end, while set up integrations & backend. We faced most challenges when we tried to allocate segregated chunks into one project.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of finishing the project on time which seemed like a tough task as we started working on it quite late due to other commitments and were also able to add most of the features that we envisioned for the app during ideation. Moreover, we learned a lot about new web technologies and libraries that we could incorporate into our project to meet our unique needs. And as always, working overnight was pretty fun!
What we learned
Sleep is very important! Jokes apart, tbh a lot of things, both summed up in technical & non-technical sides. For the technical part, we did face some serious issues while we're finetuning the hyperparameters. Handling CORS and other bugs were also a big challenge. We also gave our level best to make the UI/UX look solid which helped us learn more about different design-centric approaches! Not to mention, Stackoverflow was the gem for us while we're troubleshooting some complicated issues late-night.
What's next for Embrace
We just really want this project to create a real positive impact on humanity. We are planning to integrate some unique features into the application to make the UI look more attractive & intuitive. We are also looking forward to include machine learning model performances, and improving cross-platform support. Moreover, a lot of code needs to be refactored as we couldn't hit so much under 24 hrs. Overall, we hope that one day this project can be widely used globally to help people amplify mental health with ease.
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