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Inspiration
This came from a semi-joke tweet about how guys can be the best allies to their women friends from afar, by allowing use of the guy's phone number in lieu of the woman's in certain situations. Unwanted advances on escapades are real, and not everyone prefers to face conflict head on.
What it does
A user configures via a web portal some canned voice call and text message responses, hopefully memes, such that an unsuspecting person hoping to follow up on someone they met gets baited instead. Usually this is enough for the target to get the hint that no further communication is wanted, but in a hopefully humorous way.
Try it out by calling or texting (272) 808-1872
How we built it
Twilio for telephony, Python/Flask for middleware and front-end, sqlite3 for database.
Challenges we ran into
Starting hacking more than five hours after the official start due to Council of Commonwealth Student Governments concurrently happening. Google Cloud credits did not want to work, so the public-facing parts had to run on a semi-personal Azure instance.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Finally deploying this idea, on a whim, whilst nearly completely unprepared to hack due to CCSG taking priority.
What we learned
A reminder that flying solo at hackathons results in less efficiency amongst other things.
What's next for The Ghostline
Making a real backend, fully implementing user accounts, possible AI integrations for text message responses, configuration via text messaging and DTMF
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