IceBreakerBot (@icebreakingbot)
Inspiration
We were inspired by the "Global Connectivity" track of the hackathon and decided to come up with something that helps to bring people together. A problem we have discovered as part of this track, is that sometimes when people come together, there tend to be awkward silence and a lack of momentum to get the conversation going.
What it does
Following our inspiration, we have decided to create a telegram bot to solve the issue as it is a popular messaging app that most people already have installed, thus mitigating the issue of barriers to entry. Our telegram bot does mainly two things: 1. connecting people with similar attributes and 2. helping them "break the ice".
How we built it
We built it using the following resources:
Challenges we ran into
There were multiple challenges we have ran into during the process of completing this project:
- Inline keyboard for telegram bot does not seem to work as we intended. Hence we decided to use a reply keyboard instead.
- Some lack of technical knowledge. Some quick googling helped us greatly in this problem.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud to be able to accomplish the following features for our project:
- A fully functional telegram bot
- User data collection (for matching with others)
- Auto translation capabilities
- Database backend (using MongoDB)
What we learned
There were many learning points in this project:
- Our technical knowledge in the areas of telegram bot building has improved
- Process of engaging in a software project
What's next for IceBreakerBot
We hope to continue implementing the features that we wanted but was unable to due to lack of time, such as:
- More/better content for ice breaking (currently this feature only sends out a randomised ice breaker question to get the conversation going).
- Matching algorithm (currently we are unable to implement the matching algorithm properly to match users with others).
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