SportsHood

Inspiration

When we moved to the United States, we found it difficult to make friends. Some of the best friends we made were by playing common sports. So we decided to make a website that could help people making friends through sports.

What it does

Sportshood is a social web-application that provides users a platform to connect through specific sports in their desired location.

How we built it

We worked in a team of four people to build this application. The frontend of the web-app was done using React.js. For the backend, we decided to use SpringBoot as it is a framework that we were all eager to learn. MySQL was used as a database and Postman was used for testing purposes. We also used Google Cloud Platform for oauth2 authentication and to extract the list of cities.

Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenge we faced in the development of this web app was to provide the best user experience.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of the value this project would bring to the community especially after COVID-19 when it's very difficult to make friends.

What we learned

We learned to work efficiently in a team, and we also learned technologies such as React, Springboot, MySQL, Postman, and Styled-components

What's next for SportsHood

We are aiming to implement the chat feature for the web-app.

Built With

Submitted to

HackDavis 2021

Created by

I worked on the Front-end. It was my first time using React.js (and styled components and hooks). I have learned a lot from this which I am eager to improve in future.

Arhan Khalid
I worked on the backend and MySQL database. It was my first time setting up backend in Java and using Spring Boot framework. I learned a lot about backend and MySQL database in this project.

Muhammad Momin
I worked on the front end using React with Hooks, created input using geo Google location api.

Oxana Howard
I founded this project as well as organized and managed the team for this project. Furthermore, I worked on backend (SpringBoot and MySQL) as well as frontend (React.js).

Rohail Asad
I am a fourth-year at the University of California, Davis working towards earning a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.