John-Pork-02

A free, safe space for meeting new people who share similar problems and interests. The platform supports those who struggle to form new connections.

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Inspiration

A lot of young people are struggling with a loneliness right now, cause of rapid changes in friends-creating mechanizms. Do we think that this problem wil be huge epidemic in the next five years, so we decided to build a modern solution for a platform, that will help a struggling with loneliness to connect with each other.

What it does

This platform implements a classic chatting social media function -- with one big differenece, it more "aggresive " to the users - in a good way. Every user that register should consent with terms and conditions, after that user fills out a form of hes profile he enters a zone of new connections. The difference in our mechanizm is that our platform choses some people and connects with them on its own. So user can see that he actually send a 'Hello' mesagge to someone already without even writing it We do know that it can be scary, but users with loneliness porblems have a huge porblem with starting a convo, so our app does it instead of them

How we built it

Frontend: React, Socket.io-client Backend: Node.js, Express, Socket.io AI: OpenAI API for matching and icebreakers Auth: Custom token system

Challenges we ran into

Real-time message duplicates AI integration costs Socket authentication Making automated messages feel natural

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Working real-time chat with AI icebreakers Proactive matching system Clean, user-friendly interface Complete auth system

What we learned

Proactive features help social anxiety Balancing automation with user control Real-time communication is complex but powerful

What's next for De-lone

Mobile app Better AI matching Interest-based groups

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