Inspiration
We were inspired by the idea of 5 degrees of separation, where are two people are always separated by at most 5 connections.
What it does
Every user is only allowed to construct one message of their own. After that, they exchange messages with every person they come across. The user can then keep track of how far their message went via a map.
How we built it
We used a React Web app with a Parse/Mongodb/Express.js backend hosted on Heroku.
Challenges we ran into
We were challenged by connecting the server and frontend via requests, figuring out how to host the server on Heroku, errors that crashed the Heroku server, and interfacing with the database from the Parse server.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're most proud of the visual design of the website, and the frontend work that went into sending a message.
What we learned
We learned about how deploying to hosting works, how to send requests over a web server, and how to use React.
What's next for OneMessage
A future goal for OneMessage would be to gain more users so that messages could travel even farther!
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