MiSo

Our project was aimed to create a social media app, called MiSo, that encourages healthy consumption of social media online. Recently, social media apps have had an increasing trend of becoming more and more attention grabbing and consequently, more addictive. The name MiSo came from the idea that the application would be a minimalist social media app. So, we combined the words minimalist and social, our two key aspects that we wanted to focus on, to get the name MiSo. This project was inspired by some of our group’s member’s desires to reduce their screentime spent on addictive social media apps like Instagram and TikTok. Instead, we would develop an application that could be used as a social media app with all its regular functions (posting, post viewing, feed, messaging services) but with an emphasis on healthy device habits. The way we made this happen is using the Instagram API and then incorporating a timer function into the app so that users were able to adjust the amount of time they wanted to spend on the app a day. When I timer would end, access to the webapp would be denied, forcing users to stick to their set limit and not continue to form bad device habits by ignoring the limit and continuing their use of on app.

Built With

• docker
• fastapi
• poetry
• python
• react
• typescript