Inspiration
Our inspiration came largely from our own personal experiences as incoming Dartmouth freshmen. For us, it is difficult to acclimatize and find events we may be interested in. Aside from the publicly announced club events, there is a whole new region of fun, informal events. Organizing and publicizing spontaneous events was a hassle - until now.
What it does
Darthub is meant to offer students a way to connect with each other to participate in casual events such as pickup sports games, late-night food runs, or watching a movie. This eliminates the need for mass emails and makes sure no one misses out.
How I built it
All the front-end of the website was built by Michael with HTML and CSS. It was all built from scratch, which is impressive to say the least. The backend was worked on by the rest of the team. We decided to go with Parse because it would allow us to deal with minimal backend coding. The Android app was completely designed and created using Parse as a backend by Agastya. Seb created the layout for the IOS app as well and helped with coding and debugging the backend. Nathan did a large part of integrating Parse with the website.
Challenges I ran into
One of the large challenges was making sure all of our parts fit together. We really had to work as a team to integrate the frontend seamlessly with the backend and also to have the android and website use the same database. Additionally, for some of the errors we had with our website, the error would only appear on certain computers, while other computers worked fine.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
I have to say bringing everything together was the proudest accomplishment. Seeing the gorgeous frontend mesh with the backend code in such a small amount of time, as well as see the Android app come to life will remain a proud moment for our entire team.
What I learned
I learned massive amounts about Parse and how to integrate it across IOS, Android, and websites, using Javascript, Swift and Java.
What's next for darthub
What our team would love to see happen with darthub is just for the community at Dartmouth to use it. We would love, in the future, to continue to expand our idea to other schools and wherever people want to create pickup-games or other relaxed activities.
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