Alloka

The Problem

If there's a lot of people who need to be allocated into teams based on a shared interest, say for example at some kind of 24hr hacking competition, how do you do that?
Discord? Voice/chat rooms are a great start, but they require the user to find the right room on their own, and have no fixed sizes
Hand raising, moving around in a physical room? Impossible at the minute

The Solution

With Alloka, one admin sets up a session, specifies a few parameters like team sizes, a list of shared interests and then they’re away!
Users join the session via a unique PIN code shared by the admin, then choose their top 3 picks from the list of interests.
Once enough people have joined, the admin can start allocating them into teams based on their interests.
No free spaces on your 1st pick? Not to worry! You will still be matched with your 2nd and 3rd choices.

Technical Details We hosted using a Python Server running on a Google Cloud instance, and acquired our free domain name from Domain.com. All frontend was written in Javascript.