Inspiration
Our inspiration was trying to find a security solution to an average everyday task that is annoying and mundane. We decided that dealing with captchas on websites were extremely annoying and started thinking about different ways to solve this problem.
What it does
Our project hides a checkbox captcha on the site's main page to trick a bot into clicking on it. Humans will not be able to see that a captcha checkbox is there, but the bot will detect that it is there, and from there the website will alert that the checkbox was clicked and that it is indeed a bot.
How we built it
We built this project using Google's reCaptcha v2 API, html, and JavaScript.
Challenges we ran into
We ran into a lot of challenges. First off, we did not know how to make the captcha become invisible, as we had little knowledge of html. Once we were able to figure that out, then we had to figure out why the verification/submit button to the captcha was not working until it was fixed as this was the main part of the project. Then there were issues with the captcha verifying with the localhost domain.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I was proud that we were able to submit our first project to a hackathon ever, and that we were able to turn it in before the deadline.
What we learned
We learned a lot about how bots and antibot software works (especially honeypots). We learned a lot about the html language and JavaScript.
What's next for ReBotta
We would like to continue working on updates to further improve the site's security and maybe add on different features like database management
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