Wager

A social challenge platform allowing friendly competition amongst friends

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Inspiration

After seeing the APIs before the hack we were excited to use the William Hill APIs and from our thoughts we came up with this concept

What it does

This allows you to create challenges against your friends and create wagers for anything - find challenges nearby and wager your friends

How we built it

We created the product in a 2 stage approach - a REST API to allow the app to communicate with the db to allow the creation and update of the challenges and also integrated with Twilio to allow us to send messages to users. We then planner to create an Android app which we then moved to a web app to allow us to complete a submission - this has Mapquest integration to allow challenges to be pinned and found nearby

Challenges we ran into

Not able to use ASP.NET 5 - db connectivity is not fully ready for us Trying to integrate with William Hill's APIs only to find it doesn't do what we wanted :-( Issues with deployment Android app would not be ready in time so moved to web

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting Twilio working quickly The speed of getting a web app completed when we realised that the android app would not make it We were able to quickly iterate to compensate when we found issues with APIs that did not fit our concept

What we learned

not all APIs are great or independent!

What's next for Wager

Building our own betting and wallet systems with fully scoped social media integration and a fine tuned UX

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