Inspiration
We wanted to combat lack of exercise among teenagers and adults. Obesity is a growing problem and we think that making it easier to find others to play sports and exercise with will help address that. Exercise is a lot more fun with others! We wanted to make it easy to play sports like Basketball or Football even if you don't have a huge amount of friends to go. We want to combine the old way of "höntsäily" which is a Finnish word for playing casual yard sports (that's also where our app name Hontsa comes from!) and modern technology.
What it does
It is a simple platform where anyone can set up an event and get notifications about events made by others. The events are for example casual football on a local field or a jogging group.
How I built it
We had 2 more experienced coders and 3 inexperienced coders. Experienced coders tutored the inexperienced. Juuso and Peetu first built an API and MySQL to save and handle data and then joined the others in development of the Android application. We designed the application on the go.
Challenges I ran into
None of us had a lot of experience with all aspects of Android so networking and notifications were bit of a problem. Also our team of 5 had only 2 experienced coders so balancing workload so everyone has work to do was difficult. I think we managed to share workload pretty well after all.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We are proud that we actually got it working in this short time and we also did something new that we have never done before. We are proud how well our team worked together and all got their hands on the final product. We are also proud of how much progress the inexperienced coders made in such a short time.
What I learned
Inexperienced programmers learned a lot about Android, Node.js and MySQL. A power course to basics I'd say. The experienced programmers learned about intricacies of Android and how to apply their knowledge in Java to android.
What's next for Hontsa
We want to make Hontsa a household name and a global app for all people to enjoy. We want to revolutionize the way people exercise and do sports. Next features we want to implement are automation systems that suggest times for events by checking people's schedules or even creates them by itself. We also want to do something with Facebook so you can invite your friends to use Hontsa too!
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