Silence

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  Main Dashboard Screen

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  Screen after clicking on an option

Inspiration

As a student myself, I’ve often wasted my time wandering around campus unable to sleep with all the ruckus nearby. Rather than wasting precious minutes of my free time I began to wonder, “What if I could know how the loud the space is before I went there?” It was with that lingering question that I wanted to make an accessible app for all students who want a quiet place to sleep, study, etc.

What it does

My app “Silence” takes the average of all the ratings the students gave the volume of the space from 1~10. Using this survey data, students will be able to see on the dashboard which places are quiet and which are loud. In the scenario that no one voted on the survey, the app will use previous survey answers to predict how loud the area would be.

How we built it

Although I can do some rudimentary coding, making the website accessible internationally so that any student could use it was a challenge. As a result, I enlisted the help of Claude AI to work out some of the bugs I had as well as work on making the website available to anyone.

Challenges we ran into

I think the coding was the most difficult part of this process. Despite being able to use AI to assist in our coding, I wanted to try challenging myself to do at least some of the rudimentary parts. While learning the basics of coding and applying it was exceptionally difficult, I think another challenging aspect was coming up with an idea. Since the idea of a noise app is pretty common, I needed to find a way to make “Silence” unique in a certain aspect. While I think catering the app to students was the unique aspect I had, it still took a couple of hours wracking my head to come up with that idea in the first place.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Since this is the first time I did a big project like this without the help of any coding teachers or students I had at my school, I was really proud to be able to make a functioning website despite the frustrating bugs I had to deal with along the way. I was especially proud when my website was able to work on my classmates’ or my family’s devices.

What we learned

I learned that coding is not an easy job. All of my frustrating setbacks sometimes made me close my laptop and take a few deep breaths. If anything, I think I have an incredibly elevated view of all coders in the world now, as even a small project like mine took days of effort.

What's next for Silence

Even though the app itself is accessible internationally, not a lot of people know about this app even if they wanted to use it. I would like to be able to promote my website Silence so that any student out there with the same problem as me can comfortably use it. Additionally, even outside CSC I would like to improve little details that I think would make the website comparatively better. For instance, I wasn’t able to figure out a component that reset the data every time Render did a redeploy. Additionally, I was also unfortunately not able to install a system that actually took live data of volume based on your surroundings. With more time, I would like to figure these small details out and republish my website.

Built With

• claude
• github
• python
• render