Inspiration

We were inspired by apps like Clubhouse and Twitter spaces however we were also turned off by the exclusiveness of these platform and how they prioritize VCs or billionaires over everyday people.

What it does

We enable students to voice chat with each other, we believe this is the optimal form of communication as it expresses greater emotions than text without the appearance worries of video.

How we built it

The app is a react native based with our focus being on android development. The backend uses a Node server which uses Google Cloud Firebase to authenticate users and store data. The critical voice communicate is done through WebRTC.

Challenges we ran into

Configuring a bare workflow react native application that is compatible with webRTC

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Following a prototyping process for design to enable us to work faster

What we learned

React native is cool if and when it works WebRTC is most conducive to web or native

What's next for SpeakEasy

We plan to flesh out the voice communicate with scalability, notifications, calendar integrations, friends list and instant messaging.

Bounty: Cloud Computing Service, Google Cloud Platform, Best UX

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