RetroBoards

Sharable idea boards with fun and retro themes!

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Inspiration

We were inspired by the interfaces of the past, along with the late Google Jamboard. We wanted to make a collaborative ideas board, but unlike the rest, we also wanted it to have some whimsy.

What it does

RetroBoards lets you place text cards onto a canvas. You can move them all around, and as it's all in the cloud, you can also share your boards with friends.

How we built it

We had a list of ideas for a minimum viable usable project, as well as a few stretch goals. We then divided into frontend and backend teams, and tried to complete tasks in a way that would allow as many people to be working simultaneously as possible.

Challenges we ran into

We spent some time setting up our project and figuring out a project structure. Additionally, figuring how to connect our FastAPI backend with a SvelteKit-based frontend took some thinking.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're really proud of the fact that the notes stay across boards, even across devices. We're also really happy with the customized themes we added—there's quite a number of them!

What we learned

We learned more about databases, writing our own APIs, connecting APIs from the backend to frontend, and managing projects with Git.

What's next for RetroBoards

Our next step would be to continue scaling and pushing out more collaborative support for RetroBoards. The collaborative features of the program are very limited, as we can only share links between friends. We'd like to add a public section of boards that people can view. We would also like to make our boards customizable so that users can create their own themes and push out for other users to use!

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