HackathonMercedV

This being our first ever hackathon and first time using the tools given to us. We struggled through and through to get some project together. But as we worked through the night, we found ourselves trying our hardest to stand out. We had a goal in mind that was to make an application that would help the young people out there that are starting their lives as independent people. It came out of the experience that some of our group have had living alone for the first time in their lives, spanning from household issues and general life ideas that we may not have known about on our first time around. With that in mind, we know first hand what our application could possibly do to lives, lessening the stress that can accumulate when moving.
We first faced the dilemma on how we wanted to produce this application. We had two viable choices in our minds, either a web application or a mobile application. Originally we wanted to make a mobile application, but we have not experience at all with working with the current generation of mobile application making. So, with the little to no experience we had with web design, we decided we wanted to make a web app. But that proved to be much more challenging than we had expected. We struggled with the sheer amount of information overload involved with making a web application using the tools that were offered to us. We try to primarily use domain.com, google cloud, and studio visual. We planned to have domain.com and google cloud be our bases for our website application, but there were many technical issues that we had encountered. For example, our windows machines were struggling to even search up domain names in domain.com, but our one mac user was able to do it just fine.
Despite all the hectic planning and coding, we found ourselves going to many of the workshops to learn things that weren't exactly related to our topic but were cool neither the less. For example, we learned about UI/UX elements in rudimentary and easy to understand way while simultaneously introducing us to new and easy to use tools to upgrade our hack later on. All in all, we found our experience here to be fun at best, stressful but educational at worst, and would love to return for another round of hackathon. We may not have completed a complete website with a server, but we had the capacity to make the web pages in visual studio and planned out a general plan for it in figma. Had we figured out how to handle an online server, we definitely would have made a fantastic idea that has great potential, if we have the skill to implement it. We look forward to besting ourselves next time.

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