AlphaChat

AlphaChat logo 1
AlphaChat logo 2
Firebase screenshot
Website design

Inspiration

We were inspired by the technology many had to resort to at the start of COVID-19, specifically chat apps such as Discord. Apps like these used to be exclusive to gamers or those that spend a large part of their day online but it became a necessity during lockdown as a way of communication and socialization. We wanted to create our own version of a chat app that anyone can use anywhere.

What it does

It's a simple website that takes in a user's name and a message that they want to send. It uploads the message and name to a database. It then takes all messages from the database and displays it.

How we built it

We built this using HTML, CSS, vanilla JavaScript, with help from Firebase as the database storing the messages.

Challenges we ran into

We originally thought of doing an EchoAR project and ran into a lot of trouble the first day so we had a late start. We worked really hard the next day to build the app.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of being able to learn something new such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In addition, adjusting to our not so favorable conditions successfully was something that stood out to me.

What we learned

We learned to adapt to challenges that we faced during our project. Some of the more technical things we learned were HTML, CSS, JS, and being able to efficiently Google search our way through problems.