SillySwipe

We spent the last 24 hrs breaking the ice for you with our new app SillySwipe. Unique features include quirky image prompts and everyday surprise chat handicaps.

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Inspiration: We brainstormed for 4-5 hours and everyone was just spitting out ideas until we landed on one that everyone liked.

What it does: It's a humorous dating app, it doesn't follow the "laws" of all other dating apps, where everyone tries to look their best or appear to be someone they are not. Our app demands that users post pictures of themselves that are silly such as pictures of them sleeping, and 'down bad' pictures, and much more, and use silly words to describe themselves, so that way people hit it off based on their personality and not just looks.

How we built it: We chose WebStorm to write our code on in this project, and we used HTML and CSS to build our website, but it was highly powered by react which helped us take our website to another level.

Challenges we ran into: We ran into a problem with the JSON library that we could not figure out for around 1-2 hours, the only way we got over it was by deleting most of our code while tracing back and rebuilding from the ground up. This was the problem that most of the back-end side of the project or else we would've had way more functionality such as a database of logins, passwords, and matching algorithms.

Accomplishments that we're proud of: This is the first hackathon any of us have attended and we are glad we got to create a website(Even though it is not functional, it is more than what we thought we could do)

What we learned: We learned that even though we didn't know much separately, we can accomplish a lot as a team and we saw how beneficial team programming is.

What's next for Us: HackBU next year for sure, and by then we will be more experienced and write cooler programs.

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