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ZenFiltr
Inspiration
Modern news is filled with clickbait content, and it can be a real damper on your day to wake up to sensationalist headlines. We wanted a simple, elegant way to get to you exactly what you want to read that day, for exactly the mood you're feeling.
What it does
ZenFiltr is a Chrome Extension that replaces your new tab. It uses web scraping to fetch news articles from top media outlets and delivers to you news articles on topics you're interested in. Specifically, ZenFiltr makes use of sentiment analysis to match articles with your mood that day. Are you looking for something uplifting, or something more spicy? :)
How we built it
ZenFiltr is built in HTML, CSS, and Javascript, with the sentiment analysis scripted in Python, and ported to Javascript.
Challenges I ran into
Building a lightweight Chrome Extension that relies on scripting/a server/backend/all of the above was a lot more difficult to coordinate than we thought. Also UX design.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Our first hackathon project!
What I learned
To plan more thoroughly the fullstack (and whether we would need one in the first place).
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