Travel Therapy | Devpost

Inspiration

Picture this: we were lining up for dinner on the first day of the hackathon, thinking about how hungry we were. And then it hit us: what if we did something about food? Recommending places according to your interests? Helping people explore the city by recommending locations based on their emotional states?

What it does

Our Discord Travel Therapy Bot aims to help Torontonians in their daily life by recommending different places around the city based on their current mental state. Our app strives to counter negative emotions by recommending tailored destinations for people to explore that can help people feel better.

How we built it

Our discord bot mainly uses Python to develop the backend system of our bot, and with the help of the discord API, our bot provides a user-friendly and understandable interface. After getting input from users, our app uses Co:here to generate recommendations based on the emotions displayed by the user.

Challenges we ran into

Along the development of our Discord Bot, we encountered many difficult challenges. One of the biggest challenges we encountered was learning how to create a Discord bot and apply the Discord API. Due to the various functions and limitations of Discord API, we discovered that our bot could only be used by one person at a time. Another challenge was incorporating Co:here into our bot's functionality. As it was our first time using any form of AI or ML, learning how to use Co:here proved to be a difficult feat, especially ensuring the module would return the right kind of output.

Despite these challenges, we were able to successfully create a functioning bot, learning a lot in the process.