Making it easier to signup to important events quickly via short messages
The struggle of always missing hackathons because of forgetting to sign up
Signing up for things without internet
Convenience of texting vs. using a browser
What it does
Allows you to signup for hackathons, and other events such as parties
Allows you to send surveys via text
Allows you to plan trips and make spontaneous decisions without any internet i.e. "find me a nice place to stay for my honeymoon in Honolulu, Hawaii" would return great places to stay in Honolulu
Also created an RESTful API in Laravel+PHP that enables one to get formatted JSON based on a form
How we built it
Incremental software engineering process
Used Google Voice to test text messaging app
Backend utilized selenium to automate form completion
Web app was created with Python+Flask
Python web app and text messaging app utilized the RESTful API we created
Challenges we ran into
Browser automation problems
Ajax refresh not working because of bad form requests
Text message latency
Trouble gathering form data through RESTful API
Lack of sleep/food :)
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We had fun
It works and we can demo it
What we learned
Time management under constraints
Maximize fun vs work at a hackathon
What's next for fomo : Fear of Missing Out!
Adding a Parse backend to the web app to allow the user to input common credentials seen on forms such as Name, Phone, Email, Interests....etc
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