Quakalackin'

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Inspiration

We had the need to build a project that allowed us to share inspirational quotes to empower our friends and family. Enter this community-driven tool that allows collaboration on ideas, connection and bonding over inspiring quotes to motivate people through hard times.

What it does

It allows you to share a quote, and get a random quote, in order to insert at the right moment. It tries to predict when the right moment to snipe someone is and suggests those times to people as well. It also has a web interface so people can view all the quotes and ideas in a web browser.

How we built it

The tech stack is pure Python - the webapp is powered by Flask and MongoDB and the backend is powered by Discord.py. Using concurrency and asyncio, the entire application is self contained and can be virtualized onto a VPS host or even go serverless (as is in the demo via Google Cloud Platform).

Challenges we ran into

This was one of our team member's first time learning to code and our first time writing a Discord bot in Python - we learned a lot about concurrency requests and how bots work in the first place (mostly by looking at example code).