WhatTalkingYou

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  wow such ui

Inspiration

• We were inspired by the translation micro-services found in WeChat and Shoppee/Lazada chat apps, and originally wanted to build an open-source version that could be embedded into any other service.

What it does

• It's a chatroom that detects the language of any message sent and translates it into English or Chinese respectively.

How we built it

• Basically followed this tutorial by fireship.io and spent the next day adding functionality on top of it
• We use Firebase as a back-end to provide authentication and store messages and React as a front-end.
• Language detection and translation is done using Google Cloud Platform's translation API.

Challenges we ran into

• e v e r y t h i n g
• Spent a lot of time figuring out how React works because this was both our first time building a project with it.
• Spent a lot of time on components that were ultimately secondary to the prototype's main functions.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• bro it actually works (not well but it works)

What we learned

• Never do a webdev project unless you actually have webdev experience (Python/C++ is NOT webdev experience).
• Establish a clear list of required functions for your prototype (a minimum viable prototype) and figure out a way to build that first. Iterate, rather than plan everything out.

What's next for WhatTalkingYou

• Going to actually learn React so we won't puke blood when doing this up again.
• Research on setting up our own backend rather than use Firebase.

Credits

• Thanks to fireship.io for his tutorial and code. Our project is basically a fork of his with added translation functionality.

Built With

• firebase
• google-translate
• react