GifMe

Inspiration

We were inspired by products that allowed people to communicate in a covert way. For example, the super bowl app which shower a domestic abuse victim makes a phone call to the police under the premise she was ordering pizza. We decided that we could use gifs to give people a way to potentially send information that is common but could potentially help those in need.

What it does

Gifme generates a key for each user which is encrypted in a gif when they send their first message. It can then take in a gif and a message, encrypt the message and then encode the message into the gif and return a link to the updated gif which can be sent to friends. It does this by changing specified pixels in the first frame of the gif that go unnoticed when changed.

How we built it

We built this using Chrome extensions, Javascript, Azure, Node.js, Express, Linux, C, C++, others

Challenges we ran into

Issues deciding how to encrypt the messages, how to save and return gifs, making rest calls to get the information from the database.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of our idea and our ability to make a usable product.

What we learned

We learned that there are many choices for hosting servers and databases and some suited our plans better than others. We learned a lot about APIs and Rest calls.