Arko - A New Internet!

It provides an infrastructure, giving infinite possibilities. For one, you can create decentralized network to share your compute. Your machine's limited compute power cannot hold you back anymore

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Arko - A New Internet! | Frontend, Backend

Inspiration

Often times we have found ourselves with too little or too much compute. When using a powerful machine with a GPU, there are a lot of situations where most of the processing power is idle. This could be put to a better use. While on the other end, some people find themselves wanting to run tasks which take ages on their systems and cause over heating and slowness. This gave us the perfect idea, an AirBnb for compute!

What it does

It is a decentralized P2P internet, that supports compute sharing. If installed on your university's lab systems, you can simply+safely run your scripts on it remotely! You don't have to worry about which system to use, or where to run it from. Our easy to use web app does all of it for you, and will send you the result of your script in a jiffy.

How we built it

24 hours, 4 people and lots of Red Bull.

Frontend: React, Electron, Chakra Frontend, Socket.IO

Backend: Flask Server, Socket.IO

Challenges we ran into

  • System Design.
  • Creating virtualization for the safe execution of every code snippet.
  • Encountering documentation/behaviour with Socket.IO on Flask.
  • Keeping our compute provider information up-to date.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • We made a robust MVP within 24 hours of ideating about it.
  • It is a really cool product, using state of the art technology.
  • Has very interesting+helpful use cases: for example in college labs (students do not need to physically be present in the lab, to use its resources while at the same time keeping the lab systems safe and clean from excessive software)

What we learned

  • The ins and outs of
    • Python
    • Flask
    • Socket.IO
    • React, Electron
    • Chakra
  • How to use sockets for P2P connections
  • Rapid product delivery by having constructive discussions

What's next for Arko

  • Introduction of Tokens
  • Building a global community of Arko users
  • Getting more languages onboarded on our platform
  • NFT code signing

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