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Inspiration

We are programmers. We can be very lonely at times. We wanted to find a way to make people engage into events more easily even if they don't know each other but share a common interest.

What it does

The app allows users to see what events are happening around them. By being on an event (using GPS location) each user can post a 5 second short video on how the event goes. Those 5 second videos can be viewed by anyone to see how is the event and decide whether to go or not. Our server rates the events using the Cognitive Services API provided by Microsoft according to happiness/feelings of participants and displays a public mark for them.

How we built it

We used Ionic to build a cross-platform mobile application. The app communicates with a back-end server deployed on Azure Services which is written using Django. The videos are analysed with Microsoft Cognitive Services.

Challenges we ran into

401 Unauthorised on Microsoft Cognitive Services, for a few hours... Awesome Documentation of JS frameworks

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We split in a way that people tried something new rather than in a way to finish the project. Surely the result is not perfect and a lot of things need improvement but we are proud we have reached a certain point of functionality. And also.. We don't get 401 Unauthorised anymore!

What we learned

Never use Javascript. But seriously.. We never setup a server before and people making the mobile app never used Ionic/Angular before. It was mainly one helping another, a great learning experience and things are not always as easy as they seem (ref: Javascript)

What's next for 5secs

Further integration of social network. Event Participation - friendships - requests. Exporting events from other applications (e.g. eventbrite, facebook)

Built With

• azure
• cognitive-services
• django
• ionic
• javascript
• typescript