Spark

Inspiration

- Needed a place to track and plan our projects.

- Frustrated over apps that are specialized to do only one thing resulting in having to keep many tabs/apps open at the same time.

- Saw a need for an all-in-one productivity app.

- Believed it had the potential to increase the productivity of those affected by COVID-19.

What it does

- Features: Calendar, Tasks, Team Administration, Project Tracking, Messages, Meetings and Zoom Integration, Discussion Board

- A cumulative productivity app that puts all the apps you need into one

- Assists teams and organizations by improving productivity and tracking the progress of projects

- Highlights team collaboration with SparkRooms to coordinate team members

How we built it

- Written in HTML/CSS/JS, Python

- Written in Visual Studio Code

- Utilized Travis for continuous deployment and autonomous configuration

- Divide and Conquer - Frontend, Backend

- Git, VSCode Live Share, and Discord

Challenges we ran into

- Responsiveness & Mobile compatibility

- Rendering iframes on the dashboard

- Saving arbitrary user data within Firestore

- Git collisions: Committing changes to the same lines at the same time

Accomplishments that we're proud of

- Firebase for hosting, database, and authentication

- Fully functional login system with Google Oauth 2.0 Authentication

- Dashboard to render iframes to show lots of content in a single page

- Travis CI/CD

- Lots of backend and Javascript to process website

What's next for Spark

- Expand Spark for function enterprise and educational usage

- Increase responsiveness of site to enable mobile usage

- Create a way to send personal messages to team members

- Create more tools for users eg. a personal File Storage Method

Built With

• bootstrap
• css3
• flask
• fullcalendar
• google-cloud
• html5
• javascript
• jquery
• node.js
• python
• travis-ci