groupr

groupr Splash Screen
Group Code
Log In Screen
Find A Team Screen (Before)
Your Team Screen
Find A Team Screen (After)
Scout Individuals Screen
Group Picture

Inspiration

Team formation has always been necessary for a variety of events such as hackathons, group projects, case competitions, athletics, and much more. It can be difficult to sometimes find a partner or form a group and there is no central platform to do so.

groupr creates a fun experience for users to create and manage their teams, join new events, and meet new people.

What it does

groupr is a team formation app that uses list-based matching to enable users to find individuals or join a group. Users can either start by creating an event or by entering an invite code provided by the organizer to join the group.

By listing individual skills and interests, it opens a team-making service where users can find groups and individuals to collaborate with during events. Users of this product can range from individuals in school, hackathons, or anything that needs the formation of a group or team to operate.

How we built it

Frontend: React/Redux, Chakra UI
Backend: Node, Firebase
Branding, design and UI: Figma - Pitch video: Adobe Premiere

Challenges we ran into

Building an interface with many different elements and functions given the time constraint
Trying to find a scope for a project idea
Connecting the front end to the backend

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're really proud of creating a fully functioning MVP in the span of < 24 hours! Most of the moving parts came together to form a working proof of concept.

Complete Design Spec, branding, and theming
Multiple pages filled with feature rich group management tools, informative micro-interactions, and complex team search functions
Generate a unique code to share to event participants
Join specific event via unique code and have access to find new team members
Easy to use team member search pages to find your next teammate
Scout individuals who don’t have a team or group yet and invite them
Look at teams that aren’t full yet and request to join

What we learned

Don’t underestimate (hackathon) projects, nor our capabilities to tackle these projects
Never enough time in hackathons
Stay hydrated and remember to stretch to prevent early-onset back pain
Hackathons are hard

What's next for groupr

Fleshing out a chat feature to reduce the need to go to external links to communicate
Implementation of stretch goal features involving more complex group configuration settings
Bug bash