Inspiration
As college students we realized often the most stressful part of college is simply doing and keeping track of household chores. Our team decided to address this problem by making a companion web app that will help schedule chores for you in the least stressful way possible. Our web app helps us improve home and mental health by making sense of the unpredictability of your day and optimising your schedule around it.
What it does
We created PygChores, a webapp that optimizes your weekly chores. PygChores takes in your hectic schedule, finds lulls in activity, and uses an algorithm to suggests smart times to do your chores. It uses a priority ranking system to determine which chores to do when, and ensures that the distribution of these chores is equal across the days of a week. Simple yet elegant, PygChores allows you to maintain control of your living environment while relieving the stress that comes with it. The wellness you develop at home will carry over to wellness throughout your life.
How we built it
PygChores was built predominantly on Django, utilizing several languages including Python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. All collaboration was done using GitHub.
Challenges we ran into
Implementing the Google Calendar API and integrating several languages in the same platform were our biggest challenges.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're proud that we were able to complete a fully functioning web app by the end of the hackathon. We were able to integrate the Google Calendar API and learned several languages during the course of the 24 hours. Overall, we're proud of our work and wouldn't have done it any other way.
What we learned
The Python Django framework as well as general full-stack coding. We also gained experienced with GitHub and git commands, while developing collaborative skills useful for the future.
What's next for PygChores
Accounting for varying demand of communal resources ex. laundry machines Developing a more complete implementation of Google Calendar API Implement a feature to reschedule chores if you missed doing it
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