Mutuality

Inspiration

During the beginning of DurHack X, we spoke to people about their friendships and we noticed a common theme. Many said they'd fallen out of contact with an old friends and though, "I should message them sometime". But that "sometime" never happens. Reaching out after time apart can feel awkward and forced. That's when we were inspired to create Mutuality, as we realised that it is not that people didn't want to reach out, they just didn't have the right bridge.

What it does

In summary, Mutuality helps people reconnect and maintain meaningful friendships but using AI to find shared activities and interests and create natural moments to reach out. Users choose interest or activities and the app uses AI to look through your friend network to identify people you already know who share those interests, creating a natural opportunity to reconnect, making staying in touch easy.

How we built it

We built Mutuality using a combination of React, a Raspberry Pi, and Gemini, with a Figma-designed interface.

Challenges we ran into

We had never used React before this hackathon, so developing the frontend was a steep learning curve.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We’re proud that in just 24 hours, we built a prototype from scratch, designed in Figma, built in React, powered by a Raspberry Pi, and driven by AI, all to make reconnecting with old friends feel natural again.