InTheLoop

Inspiration

As college students, it can be difficult to keep up with the events of the many student societies and clubs on campus, with events buried at the bottom of emails or on Instagram Stories that can easily be hidden among the sea of other posts.

We wanted a way to aggregate all the goings-on of college societies into one place, so students can see a map of fun things to do between or after classes.

What it does

InTheLoop's main page is a map for students where all the university society events occurring that day are visible. It also contains details about said events, and lets users look events up using search functionality.

How we built it

We built our project in Javascript, using the Next.js framework, as well as Auth.Js. We used Claude, and Claude Code heavily in every stage of our workflow, from fleshing out our idea to writing our code.

Challenges we ran into

The team struggled with implementing CORS in the short timeframe, as well as merge conflicts. We eventually overcame these obstacles, but a large amount of our development time was focused on ironing out these mistakes.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of getting a working prototype in the short time we had for the hackathon. Additionally, we like our idea and feel that it is something genuinely useful, that goes a way towards solving a real problem.

What we learned

We learned the importance of proper planning and use of Git to prevent merge conflicts and wasted work.

What's next for InTheLoop

We want to keep working on InTheLoop! In particular, we want to flesh out our prototype more for a full release. We would like to approach the Central Societies Commission of our university (TCD) to discuss them promoting InTheLoop across the college's societies and clubs.