Inspiration
My long repetitive history notes.
What it does
Scrapes wikipedia to define places, people, terms, concepts, etc.
How I built it
I built it by working on the server first, and then creating a frontend around it. The server is built with amazon web services, nodejs, socket.io, and nodemailer and the frontend is built with the classic JS, HTML5, and CSS
Challenges I ran into
Persisting data on amazon's NoSQL db: dynamodb. How to handle tasks running at the same time that are dependent on each other. How to create and manage a user system.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
The creation of a database for both objects and users and being able to integrate both of them. The capability for real time communication between client and server.
What I learned
Real time event processing, persisting data, general serverside, user systems, database structures (basic)
What's next for HackRU2015
Hardware hacks. This was my first hackathon and it went great. But I think I was very focused on making software that I completely forgot that there was hardware to hack. Definitely look forward to that one at the next HackRU.
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