Mently

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Inspiration

We wanted to give people hope and inspiration in these hard times.

What it does

Using our bot you can take a survey that will give us the results of your mental state and personal interests. Then, we use the results to give you personalized recommendations on what to do. For example, books that work for your mental state and likely help you to improve it

You can take a survey and play a corona-game on our website. Also, you can read relevant articles on COVID-19 there.

How I built it

We used import telebot, random, os, telebot import types, python, HTML, css, js. Our tech members had to learn a lot of information and improved their skills dramatically

Challenges I ran into

During the last 36 hours, our team had faced many challenges both technical and personal. For most of the team members, it was their very first experience in hackathons and teamwork. Moreover, we all have just met and did not know each other at all. In the beginning, we were struggling to find the common ground and actually start working. That’s why the first 10 hours were a complete failure - we could not decide how and what to do. Everyone wanted to build their own “thing” and did not listen to others.

As none of us had much experience in creating Telegram Bots and/or solving Mental Health issues, we had to learn a lot of information in a short period of time.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We have written over 1500 lines of code
Our bot will be able to actually help people and we do know how to make it better
Huge progress for our inexperienced team
launched both a website and a bot

What I learned

How the Bots work & how to build them;
how to personalize content;
how to understand if someone has mental health issues;
how not to sleep for a long time;
how to work with a new team and how to launch fast.

What's next for Mently

We know how to make testing results more accurate, it will require some more coding and questions. Also, we will give people better feedback on their results: what is their mental health state and how to improve it, more accurate personalized recommendations(films to watch, books to read, courses to attend, etc). We'd love to partner with some Mental Health organization to promote out Bot. We are planning to make Mently available on other platforms too(such as Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Vk.com) and launch a version in Russian

website demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=rmq_1vmCw8Q&feature=youtu.be Bot Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aypUdCPWsLo&list=WL&index=2&t=0s