GrassTouchers

Inspiration

We were inspired by the joke that conputer science students spend too much time online, and need to go out and "touch grass". Your goal is to subvert societal expectations and continue interacting with your chronically online friends in our chatroom.

What it does

We created a chatroom that allows you to interact with other nerds, geeks, and overall brainrotted individuals. Your interactions with your friends will reward you with anti-social credit, which can be exchanged to get rid of the grass that has been growing on your screen (feature pending)

Challenges we ran into

The most difficult part of this project was deploying it. We had difficulties finding an adequate server to host it on, and getting all of our python to run. Unfortunately, we were unable to deploy it.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Aidan is proud of the ability to add reactions to messages
Timmy (allegedly) made an among us easter egg (dear reader, this is news to me)
Juan is proud of the grass vector image he created to make our webpage look pretty :)
I (Keira) am proud that I was able to fully train and implement a working text classification model in under 24 hours!
Atish is "too busy" to answer me, but we are proud of him for figuring out the scaffolding (whatever that means) and resolving our merge conflicts

What we learned

github has a 100MB file size limit!

What's next for GrassTouchers

We trained a text classification model to rank messages in terms of categories like "brainrot", "nerd", "dad joke", but ran out of time to implement it into the functionality of our chatroom. In the future, this model will be used to reward you for giving appropriate reactions to messages (e.g. a "nerd" reaction to a nerdy message), and allow you to check the leaderboard to see which of your friends makes the most dad jokes.

We also never managed to implement a use for your anti-social credit. In the future, it will be used to delete grass, slow the rate of grass, or send grass to your frenemies.