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Problem

Some of my friends in college do not take part in all the activities, we get to know about some events by word of mouth. This means a lot of students miss activities and events. We wanted to change that and try making the college a one big United community where people can learn and grow. When one of our teammates was working with BLDC motors it was almost impossible for him to find another person who is well versed it is. But, later after the work was done, he found a person who was good with those motors. Many such people fail to connect even tho they are on the same campus. We wanted to come up with something that connects people, tells them what's going and also bring out the introverts.

What it does?

There are no such apps with the intention to unite people and help out college students (freshers as well as seniors). our aim is to build a community comprising of smaller communities where people can interact and grow.

we aim to make these possible through the following features:

Explore page
- In this, a person can swipe and know what's going on in college. From events, discounts, trends, news, Information, and any activities. It will be a quick way to know everything about a college.

Here live feature is also added where users can go live and interact with people who didn't make it to the location The live feature was implemented using Twilio live video and Symbl.ai transcription API.

Local businesses in and around the college can use the messages function which was implemented using Twilio message API, which makes this offline as well as online. ex- restaurant can share discount codes, college clubs can share form links, etc.

Amigos
- People who belong to the same college as you come upon the amigo's page. Using this you can find people's areas of interest. You can have a list from which you can find whoever you want. Here you swipe right if you want to add them to your amigo's list and left to decline.
Community
- This part of the solution is for all the college students and faculties based on their interests. By forming small communities in their comfort zone we urge introverts and people who stay by themselves to come out have met and explore the college. Here people can form groups for example anime group, F1 group, or coding group. In the groups, they can post, interact and communicate. Then finally they can arrange a meet-up in campus if they wish to.

How we built it

Built using

MERN stack
EJS
InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)
Tailwind CSS
Designed in Adobe XD
Additional APIs used - Symbl.ai, Twilio

Chalenges we ran into

Combining all the required features together in a hackathon duration was challenging. Including features like swipe effect in the amigo's page, and the Stories feature in explore page was time-consuming.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

using Twilio message API we were able to connect offline messages to our service using local businesses having target audiences as students can reach them easily with new offers. it was difficult to think of ways to bring out introverts and left out students. but, adding a small communities section seemed like one of the best ways as they would still be in a comfort bubble of similar topics while exploring around.

socializing is one of the most important qualities required for gen Z we will be very proud if we can help non-social people get at least little help from our efforts.

We use the IPFS network to upload decentralized data. In which data is uploaded into a blockchain network, which makes it highly secured.

What we learned

InterPlanetary File System
Twilio Live Video API
Symbl.ai conversation API

What's next

We want to expand this solution to the inter-college level next and then see if this sits somewhere in society. First, we want to grow to a point where multiple colleges should be able to communicate while maintaining the personal college experience.