Speaking Freq

The top music artists can be described with many word but "Freak" is seldom used. Their FREQuency with their craft is on another level. Speaking Freq is a social platform to get to this level.

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Inspiration

My inspiration is my love for music and love for speaking on it. I have obsessed over producing songs before and recently I have gotten into web development. I thought this hackathon is the perfect time to merge them together.

What it does

Speaking Freq is a website that is intended to educate and allow collaboration with artists. Its goal is to have a vast scale of expertise from beginner to expert as a social media app for individuals pursuing making music. The

How I built it

Upon making the first index.php file I knew I had to add a PHP file to take care of the backend for the SQL database. I made a SQL database through the XAMPP control panel and later PHPMyAdmin.

Challenges I ran into

I'm an electrical engineering major... In all seriousness, I had many bugs in my code and issues with PHPMyAdmin and the SQL database. These bugs did not allow me to fulfill my vision of starting to educate through the website. Sadly, I had little experience with SQL and had to look up a lot of documentation for PHP to allow the database to be linked. I had to constantly make a fake username, password, and email to check out what error I got on my localhost server. It was frustrating but I got through it and I won't stop me from continuing to pursue this project.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I have learned so much the past 30+hours. I felt passionate about this project even if it isn't close to being finished. I feel like I have gone over the very large hump initially when learning something and now it is my time to improve with web development. Specifically, allowing users to register and take a survey was a proud moment for me.

What I learned

First and foremost, I learned how to persevere to the best of my ability in a project with a massive time crunch. I was very stressed about doing this project alone. I learned that I need to collaborate and I should be keen on finding a team at my next hackathon. It is ironic that I want to build a community and I did not team up with anyone. As far as content goes, minute things with coding in these languages and becoming more efficient in debugging the code was a huge learning milestone for me.

What's next for Speaking Freq

The UI is currently not what I envisioned but I will continue to work on it, making it fully functional and constantly improving it. Once it gets up to par with user experience and aesthetics, I plan to market it in efforts to educate and learn from the community I will hopefully build!

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