LetsMeet

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Inspiration

Amidst the Covid19 pandemic, it is getting even more difficult to form meaningful connections with others. We wanted to figure out a solution to this problem, while also tackling important social issues that affect our community as a whole.

What it does

LetsMeet connects users who are passionate about social issues such as environmentalism, diversity & Inclusion, Mental Health awareness to connect with other like-mined people via upcoming events and social groups collected from the Meetup.com API. After entering some basic location information, LetsMeet will find the nearest meetups and groups in your area so that you can connect with other users who are passionate about social good.

How we built it

We built LetsMeet with React.js on the frontend side, and Quart, an asynchronous Python web framework, on the backend. To collect information about upcoming events and groups in the user's area, we used Meetup.com's backend GraphQL API. Our app is deployed on the Google Cloud Platform in a Docker container.

Challenges we ran into

Finding an API that we could use to retrieve the data that we needed to serve. Even after finding a good API, we were challenged when it came to parsing the data that the API returned.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting the website fully functional, and being able to deploy the site to Google Cloud Platform

What we learned

Even when your first few resources or tools that you want to use in your project fail, you should never give up.

What's next for LetsMeet

Adding more categories so that users can find events and groups that are more relevant to their interests. We would also like to be able to search and filter the existing results.