Prodactivity

Home Page
Bottom of Home Page
Instant Cure Page
Food Portion of the Instant Cure Page
Personalized Recommendations Page
Personalized Music Recommendation
Recommendation with Usage of Spotify API
Language Calendar
Donation Resources
About the Creators
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Inspiration

We were inspired to create this website because we wanted to give people opportunities to be able to use their time in quarantine productively. During quarantine many of us were very bored and weren't sure how we should spend our time. Studies have shown that boredom is one of the main emotions felt during quarantine and that it is detrimental to mental health. Boredom is also the leading reason behind people breaking the stay-at-home order. Our team faced the facts and our plight. Then, an idea struck and we had the thought to create this website.

What it does

This website gives ideas on how people, especially teenagers can use their time productively during quarantine. This website gives random recommendations based on the topic you choose like books, movies, food recipes, workout videos and more. Additionally, there is an option with a higher commitment which is a month long calendar that gives a different activity for each day. There are options to choose from the topics of activities, workouts, sports and language. This website also gives personalized recommendations for music, books, and movies based on your personal interests. It also offers ways you can donate your time, money and resources to help with the Covid pandemic.

How we built it

We built this website from scratch using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jquery, and Python. We used a Spotify API for the chat box and added a Google Calendar insert for the monthly plans.

Challenges we ran into

Getting the Spotify API and the Google Calendar to work took a while but we persisted and figured it out. We also ran into some challenges when we had differing opinions about the aesthetics of the website, but we were able to work these out and ended up with an amazing website.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We’re proud of the chat boxes, and especially the Spotify chat box because getting the API to work took a lot of time and effort. We’re also proud of the Google Calendar portion of our website because that part took a lot of trial and error before we finally figured it out. Most importantly, we’re proud of the fact that working on this project together helped us grow our experience in computer science while helping others.

What we learned

We learned that as a team we have to compromise on some of our ideas and find a middle-ground that everyone agrees upon. We also learned a lot about time-management because we had to use what time we had wisely with some of our teammates having other activities during the day.

What's next for Prodactivity

In the future, we hope to be able to add a login/signup feature so that users are able to store information and preferences on their accounts. We would also like to be able to use webscraping to pull more activities and store them with tags in a searchable database.