REMEMBER

A time capsule service

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Inspiration

What is permanent in these days? Data gets lost everywhere. What if you had a service to preserve memories forever? That is what you can do with remember.

What it does

It generates a time capsule for you, which you can lock with a password and that can not be opened before the opening date, which you can choose.

After that you get a link where you can fill the time capsule with texts and images. You can generate a capsule for your future self as well as a present for your friends and family.

Once you generated a link, send it to others who should be able to write into the capsule, too (as long as they know the password).

Your data will be encrypted and perpetuated in a blockchain.

How we built it

We built the frontend with React.js and the backend with Go. Frontend and backend communicate via REST. Steffi took care of the layout and design while Jonah focused on functionality (and helped Steffi with difficult react questions as well).

Material Design is a widely used design guideline, so we decided to use their React.js library Material UI to give our application a solid design.

Since Go has a clear syntax we decided to use Go for the backend.

One of our main USP is that we use the IOTA-tangle to make sure our data is eternalized and does not depend on any hackable server.

Challenges we ran into

Usually HTML and CSS is Steffi's main expertise so the React.js framework was completely new to her. Nontheless she is doing her best at giving the whole application a pretty UI.

What's next for remember

To give the whole application more and more personality, we want to include more diverse media in the time capsule for example videos or voice mails.

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