itSubscribe

one stop platform for managing all your subscriptions

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Inspiration

In this era, where people run on busy schedules all the time, it is incredibly easy to lose track of subscriptions. People might therefore end up having to unnecessarily pay for them. itSubscribe makes it easy to keep track of all the subscriptions, in one place.

What it does

itSubscribe is a central place to keep track of all the subscriptions where you can add, edit or delete the subscriptions. You also get notified abot approaching deadlines through use of twilio api.

How we built it

Looked for templates for the frontend at first. And then decided on the website flow and drew it out. Then we divided the work for frontend and backend, implemented it separately, and then connected them both. Techstacks used for building the frontend include vanilla js, css, html and bootstrap templates and backend development was done using ExpressJs, Node, MongoDb,and mongoose as ODM. We also incorporated twilio api in our website.

Challenges we ran into

combining frontend and backend code, because one party in our team was well versed with frontend, and the other with backend, but since no one was familiar with both tech stacks, we had a hard time connecting the two. Also integrating twilio api was a challenge.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

1.Having a working website that keeps track of subscriptions 2.Allowing users to register and changing subscription list gets reflected in real time. 3.Twilio api is up and working.

What we learned

Learnt about triggers, using the twilio api, and about connecting the frontend and backend for a smooth running website. We also learnt about collaborating, considering that people in our team were from opposite ends of the world, so we learnt a lot about compromising, and working together even with a huge difference in our times.

What's next for itSubscribe

  1. We wish to add a feature that allows users to merge accounts created using different emails and view all subscriptions in one place.
  2. We wish to make use of api s that can find out on what platforms the user has been subscribed on, with the email he used to registed, and then display the list automatically.
  3. The trigger part also needs to be dealt with.
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