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Haunter
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Haunter
Inspiration
When we were kids, Halloween was our favorite day of the year because we could collect free candy. It is unfair for kids nowadays because of the current global situation. We are very caring people, and we simply could not stand still and watch a holiday dear to so many kids fade away so easily.
What it does
It is a sort of social media site to help connect people during the Covid-19 crisis. People can upload pictures of their houses and costumes, and then can go visit other people's houses and see their costumes. You can also leave a candy at someone's house if you think it is exceptionally cool, and those with the most candies will appear on the leaderboards
How I built it
We used a few technologies that we were unfamiliar with. However, we took the time to learn it over the event and we are very proud of what we ended up with. It is thanks to everyone's excellent commitment to our cause and the strict git guidelines that everyone followed perfectly that allowed us to create such an amazing application in such a limited amount of time.
Challenges I ran into
We ran into countless challenges, ranging from spelling mistakes to database dependencies errors. Some errors were easy to search and answer but many more took sweat and tears to remove. Our team also happened to suffer from sleep deprivation from an event this morning.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
The overall team synergy was spot on, we always knew how to assist each other. We were all programmers but we all had our own specialties. Carter was an expert on many aspects of the tools we used. Rick was an excellent hard worker, solving many difficult problems through sheer willpower. Ren did a lot of the artwork and video creation. Aeden took over the leadership of the team guiding us through the project while maintaining team unity.
What I learned
We all had different levels of experience with web development but we all took something away from this project. Using node.js was sort of new 2 of us and brand new for the other 2, but we all earned some valuable experience by using it on haunter. We were all pretty new to react, material, UI, and firebase so we all came out of this with a better understanding of node.js tools and database management resources. Overall, every member came out of this with a better understanding of the tools we used and how they can be used together to build better projects.
What's next for Haunter
We need to fix our visit homes page to load correctly, as currently, it will reload over and over if we find a home without an image, it reloads until it finds one that has an image, causing the comments to flash on and off of the screen.
We would also like to add a way to see the costumes of all the people who have come to your house, as well as make the leaderboard clickable to go to that user's house (not hard to set up but we are out of time).
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