Inspiration
During Covid-19 when loneliness is at an all-time high with stay-at-home orders, what if you could make new friends who do not speak your language.
What it does
The end user will fill out a form for a phone number and a message. Using whatsmate translation api and the twilio sms api the application will translate a text from English to French for the recipient.
How I built it
I built this in Java/Spring
Challenges I ran into
I had an issue getting Google Translate API to function correctly with Java. So I switch to a different one, however, it couldn't send messages in Japanese like I had originally planned so I switched it to French...and literally everything else writing a web application in Java. It's something I'm still learning.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I mean, I made an application in a framework that I have had very little experience with. And all the API's are working.
What I learned
That I miss creating applications in Rails. Just kidding. So much, I can see the power of using Spring for creating fast applications, there's just so much that I didn't realize was different in design patterns vs creating the same design patter in Ruby/Rails.
What's next for Text Me Maybe
I tried deploying to Google App engine to no avail. Will have to work more on it. It will have to be localhost for now ;) https://textmemaybedeploy.ue.r.appspot.com/
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