CommunityText - A community-forming site that aggregates inspirational texted responses from users

View site at: https://communitytext.herokuapp.com/

Many of us are stuck in our own bubble and are not exposed to how others around us tackle the challenges of life. We realized that what our generation needs is a reality check. So we developed a social media site to highlight responses to daily questions surrounding various communities revolving themes like ways people can build confidence every day and become a better, healthier version of oneself.

CommunityText is a web application that uses text message to find communities based on interests. Users can find other messages that they can relate to and share advice and revelations about themselves that can inspire others.

How to use CommunityText Users create a profile by sending personal info through text message and then join communities of interest, including Gratitude, Health, Education, and Empowerment. They then receive daily questions from each community which they answer by text. These responses are displayed on the web application of CommunityText where users can see others' responses to the questions. They obtain inspirations and advice from those in their community.

We used Twilio to send text messages to the user. Then we stored our data using mLab, with Google Cloud Platform as our cloud provider. We used React to display the frontend.

Our team members were able to each work on technology we were unfamiliar with and learned from the very beginning. We were able to send and receive text messages using the Twilio API and submit the data into databases to depending on the community the user joins.