wayside

Find it awkward to network at conferences or hackathons? Wish there was some way to find people with common interests at these events without being obnoxious? Yearn for the nostalgia of the Nintendo 3DS' Streetpass? Unsure what to do with your overpowered hardware badge that you spent 15 SGD per unit on? Recruiter? Friends ditched you for the day? Looking for someone to hang out with?

Wayside lets you find Hot Programmers with Sick Skillz in your area (no clickbait)! Using ESP-NOW for broadcasting and proximity estimation and BLE for communication with your personal device, Wayside will passively announce your interests and skills to other participants. When you're in proximity of someone with high compatibility, you both will get notified and yall can #LinkUp and get #LinkedIn.

Inspiration

Nintendo Streetpass

What it does

See above

How we built it

Soldering iron

Challenges we ran into

Hacking the badge

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Hacking the badge

What we learned

Claude Code doesn't know how to write good netcode

What's next for wayside

I'm going to reimplement the netcode to use protobuf instead of whatever Claude cooked

Built With

• c
• esp-idf
• react-native
• typescript