SocioNet

Inspiration

We were inspired by the problems recognized in today's society, such as the consumption of social media which is decreasing in person social interaction, which is affecting the health of many. Also, during COVID-19, many people are not wanting to interact with others, which may turn into an unhealthy habit after the end of the virus. In order to facilitate social interaction with people in the same building, a five-mile radius, or on the other side of the mall, Socionet helps find many new people. We believe Socionet is the next generation of increased social networking.

What it does

Socionet connects many people through a map-based platform in a certain radius and increases local networking. Many people in this day and age, especially after COVID-19, will be hesitant to interact with new people outside of their home due to the spread of the virus. Many also interact more through social media than they do in-person, which has been proved unhealthy by various researchers from accredited universities. You can also increase local network with this app. For example, you can be connected on Facebook with the person on the other side of the neighborhood, but you could have never met them before. This is why Socionet facilitates this connection and allows you to connect, then interact, with that person through this platform.

How I built it

I build this through my expertise in the technological sector. I used Ionic3, Mongodb, Node.js, and the Appbox API in order to build the full application. The app is also released onto the app store.

Challenges I ran into

There were many bugs within the app after completion that took some time to fix and we are currently in the challenging phase of marketing the product. During development, we also encountered testing problems and are looking to test the app even further in order to update the app with bug fixes. We have already released one bug fix update.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I am proud of releasing the app to the iOS store.

What I learned

Through the development process, I learned about my companies values and ethics which were not pre-established. I was also introduced to ionic 3 and Mongodb, two technological tools which I did not know before.