Locus

Inspiration

It was something that we would use because we all have very busy schedules. This makes it challenging to coordinate an with even small groups of friends. Locus is our solution.

What it does

Locus can look at you and your friends calendars and determine when all of you are free to meet up.

How we built it

We built the webserver with node.js. The server acts as a front end for first time setup as well as serving the Alexa responses.

Challenges we ran into

Learning new node.js libraries, express.js
Working with AWS and Alexa skills for the first time
Obtaining a signed ssl certificate so that swift and the Alexa skill can communicate
Domain.com banning our accounts instead of giving us a free domain ## Accomplishments that we're proud of
Having a working Alexa skill and service ## What we learned
How to create and train an Alexa skill
How to effectively use github as rvcs
Swift IOS development
MongoDB