Time And Place (TAP)

Inspiration

Entering college at the peak of COVID, we all experienced a difficult time meeting people and having opportunities to connect with our community. There was little help from our universities, and we were missing out on all of the glory that the college experience had promised. There was something missing, something that needed to bridge the gap between students hungry for connection, and a big city waiting to be explored. We decided that we would take this issue into our own hands, using our superpowers of coding. With a craving for human interaction and a dream, Time And Place was born.

What it does

Students can sign in with their university emails, and be instantly added to their networks. Users can upload plans that people in nearby locations can view on their feed, and request to join if interested. Then, the host can either accept or deny this request, depending on the profile of the applicant. If the request is a success, then the plans are set and they are halfway on their way to having an incredible weekend! Users can also select their interests, developing a curated feed of plans that they would love to attend.

How we built it

We used MongoDB for the database, and we used TypeScript and React for the Front-End portion of the project.

Challenges we ran into

Git was a difficulty, especially when having many merge conflicts Also, we experienced a great learning curve, as many of our members were learning React and TypeScript for the first time.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We conquered the learning curve and successfully churned out an incredible project. Also, we were incredibly efficient for a team just meeting for the first time.

What we learned

We learned that communication is an underrated skill in team coding projects. Good communication can be the difference between an incredible project, and one that falls apart from the start.

What's next for Time And Place (TAP)

We were discussing continuing and expanding on our project, being able to offer it to college campuses around the Boston area (and potentially even a wider audience).