Hack4HongKong

Inspiration

When I and my teammates watched videos and news of China's tactics to suppress the large population of people in Hong Kong's ideals. What disgusted me even more is China's effect on companies here, where some have opted to publicly defend China and others work in the shadows.

What it does

The App recognizes company logos from photos you take, and then tells you about whether the company who's products you use are willing to stand in solidarity for freedom, or bow down to the world's largest authoritarian regime.

How we built it

We used Google's Cloud Recognition to identify logos in photos, and we used Google Firebase to store the database of companies. We then deployed the website on Azure. The entirety was coded on Visual Studio.

Challenges we ran into

Getting the photo to be read by the backend code Getting components to work after we updated Bootstrap halfway through the hackathon Setting up Google Cloud Deploying the Website on Azure

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Working with API's!! Working in roles that we're not used to. Picking up how to write in a programming language on the go.

What we learned

API's are just a scary word, they reduce your workload lot more than you'd think. Deploying is another scary word The only truly scary word in CS is Javascript.