webtext.tech

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Inspiration

We were inspired by wanting to provide a solution to break the entrance barrier to web development and lower the entry cost for the millions of people worldwide who do not have access to high-speed internet.

What it does

Our service takes a user's text file formatted in Markdown and converts it into an HTML website that is nicely formatted and easily accessible.

How we built it

We developed a frontend to accept the user's text file and provide information on the service, as well as a backend that took that file and parsed through each line to transform Markdown text into a website.

Challenges we ran into

Our biggest challenge was finding a way to get the frontend and backend to communicate and send data between one another.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of coming together with little to no hackathon experience and ending the weekend with a product that we feel good about and provides a tangible service.

What we learned

We learned about synchronous code development, new HTML/CSS/JavaScript techniques, developing a text parser/converter, and creating something that showcases all of these things into one product.

What's next for webtext.tech

Possible future changes/improvements could be the potential to submit multiple text files at once to get many websites created at once rather than going one at a time, as well as taking user feedback to make the changes that the users want to see, since this is ultimately a service for them. We also want to add the ability for users to use custom URLs and the ability for users to edit their webpage after converting.