Inspiration
One part of our daily lives is hanging out with friends. However, we found that it can be difficult to plan hang outs with multiple people, especially in group chats where plans get flooded with messages, and wanted to find a way to simplify the process. We thought of the main issue that made organizing plans difficult, and decided that it was hard to verify how many people were coming. We also found that plans were sometimes cancelled due to not enough people coming, and decided to create a product that solves both issues.
What it does
MeetUP allows users to easily organize events. Users will be able to create events, and MeetUP will automate the process of seeing whether there are enough people coming. Every event will have a minimum number of people, as well as a timer which allows MeetUp to check if there are enough people by a custom deadline. If there are not enough people by the end of the timer, the event is automatically canceled. There will also be a counter for each event that allows event organizers to easily track the number of attendees.
How it works
On the main page of MeetUP is a form that creates events. Users provide the name of the event, the date, the start time, the end time, the minimum participants, and the participating deadline. Once this info gets submitted, it will show up as an event below. Users can now click the “add people” button next to the event which increases the number of people. This allows users to easily track the amount of people showing up to the event, and plan accordingly.
Challenges we ran into
The automatic deletion of created events was a major challenge. It was difficult to make each submission into an independent object, and detecting the conditions for deletion periodically also puzzled us.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Since the automatic deletion of events took a long time, we felt very proud after accomplishing it wihout any errors.
What we learned
The creation of multiple webpages for a single website, and the ways of making each form's submission an individual object.
What's next for MeetUP
We're planning to set an account system and a group system, where the users could let other users to update their participation status from other devi
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