Community

Inspiration:

• The talk about My block My Hood My City made us think about how to connect people within close proximity of each other (such as neighborhoods, blocks, and apartment complexes).

What it does:

• Our vision is to create a space where people nearby can connect. We imagine there to be a new Facebook feature called Community. This would work similar to Pages and public groups, except it would integrate other features such as Events, Marketplace, and groups.

Our current implementation of this is simply a FB Page associated with a Messenger bot. Through the bot, we allow the submission of anonymous posts to allow people to engage in a public space that may not otherwise do so.

How we built it:

• We used Heroku to host a Node API to handle requests to and from Facebook Messenger. We utilized the FB Graph API endpoints to interact with Facebook's page and message data. The API allows the page to auto-respond and auto-post any message that is sent to it.

Challenges: Firebase :angry: The free version of Firebase

Built With

• facebook
• graphapi
• messenger
• react