GatorLink - Bringing Gators Together

Are you having trouble making friends in college during the pandemic?—finding it hard to connect with your classmates? You’re not alone! We created a communication app—GatorLink to solve that problem!

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Inspiration

The inspiration behind GatorLink was through addressing the topic of how San Francisco State University can bridge the communication gap between various communities and students on campus. Given the past year was all virtual it prompted little to no motivation to foster friendships through Zoom classes. Communication apps like Facebook, Tinder, Bumble, and Discord are very broad and cater to anyone that has access to the app stores. We wanted to create an application that is specific to connecting only San Francisco State University students to other San Francisco State University students.

What it does

Landing Page

  • Contains a menu bar to toggle and navigate through other pages
  • Contains a Login button (Redirects to a login page) prompting user to log in (previous account owner)
  • Contains a Sign Up button (redirects to a Sign Up page) prompting new user to create an account

Home Page

  • Contains a menu bar to toggle and navigate through other pages
  • Contains the users profile at the top of the page for visibility and access to edit their profile
  • Contains a feed button that shifts the page to the feed section
  • Feed section of the page contains a carousel that should populate with the students profiles when registered

Our Github Link

https://github.com/rhoannajo/sfhacks-project

Log In Page

  • Contains a form that asks the user for a SFSU email address and a valid password (authenticated)
  • Contains a “submit” button that prompts the user to the homepage after a successful login
  • “New User? Create an account” button—when clicked prompts the user to a page that allows a new user to register for an account

Registration Page

Contains a form that asks the user for their first name, last name, age, valid sfsu email address, password, and major

How we built it

Front End

  • Bootstrap
  • HTML,CSS
  • JavaScript

Designs/UI

  • Canva
  • Google Fonts

Database/Back End

  • Google Cloud/Firebase

Challenges we ran into

  • Finding feasible manpower for Back End Development → Getting the database to work for Sign Up/Log In
  • Ensuring the UI replicated our initial design/vision

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Bringing our complex solution to life
  • Amazing interfaces for our application and its pages
  • Being adaptable and persevering through a tight time frame

What we learned

  • Bringing our complex solution to life
  • Amazing interfaces for our application and its pages
  • Being adaptable and persevering through a tight time frame

What's next for GatorLink - Make Friends

What we’ve created is definitely a start to an ever-evolving idea. We hope to further develop this application—expand on its functionality and accessibility.

Next Up

  • Email verification
  • Real time chat - individual/group chat
  • Updated interfaces
  • Interactive buttons/features
  • Profile settings/edit profile
  • Real time audio/video
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