WhatIsAround

WhatIsAround Logo

Inspiration

The auto-tweeting Stanford tree interested our team and led us to develop a Twitter bot that would interact with Twitter users. Also, we wanted to provide the perfect tool for a post-COVID world where we can rediscover our favorite places and find new ones too!

What it does

Just mention @WhatIsAround on twitter, include one of the supported hashtags (#restaurants, #activities, #museums, #hotels, #covid19), and the bot will respond with 2 recommendation for each category. The bot also includes a friendly interface that tells people how to set up their location.

How I built it

This Twitter bot runs on Javascript, communicates with the Twitter API using twit, and uses fetch to make API calls to Triposo, where we gather our destination data from.

What's next for WhatIsAround

We had so many ideas, but only so much time. These are improvements we would like to make on our project: Troubleshoot duplicate tweets, Be able to interact with more users, Integrate more hashtags option for the users, Make more language options available, Gather user location beyond profile information (geolocation from tweets), Music suggestions depend on where you are, More sophisticated text processing capabilities, Universal location support (API specific improvements)

Built With

javascript
triposo
twit
twitter

Submitted to

#BattleOfTheCamps

Created by

I worked on the text processing of the tweet, as well as connecting to the Triposo API to retrieve destinations for our response.

Alex Gist
This was my first hackathon and I learned a lot. I helped out my teammates with anything they needed as they were working on!

Alexandra Barahona
Text scripting where it take inputs(tweets and hashtags) from users then determine what categories we can make a call to the Triposo API to return the suggestions to user

houyhourung Ung
Created the bot logic and what the bot should do when it receives a @mention

Louis Ta
This is my first hackathon! I worked on text-parsing as well as the final presentation (with my teammates). I hardly had any Javascript experience but now I have a good idea on it!

Godbless Chille
I worked on the Twitter API to make the bot listen to the mentions, retrieve users' handle and location in order to Tweet back to that user with the suggestions.

Ana Carolina Arellano