Play404

Project built for MLH Hackcation 2020 by Team 404

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Play404, by Team 404

Presenting Play404, the one online getaway you need to keep yourself refreshed and relaxed.

Play404 is your own virtual vacation.

Just login with any username, and you get a free access to all of our features .

Join in and Play games, binge movies, burn some calories, plan activities, set reminders or do various activities and live a much more balanced life!

You can even plan it with your virtual friends across Play404, chat with them and live better life together!

You just have to think and we have  a fun and wonderful weekend planned for you at any time of the week.

Do not forget to give any suggestions or recommendations at the end of session!

Enjoy!

Features

Quick Access Dashboard The dashboard gives you a quick snapshot of what your day looks like. A shot of inspiration and motivation via regularly updated quotes, Your tasks and to-dos, a quick mindful breathing session and more. Dashboard presents you the information you need right when you need it.

For You The For You tab shows you all the activates you can do, personalized and delivered directly on your screen. View different ways in which you can enrich your day, read about them and add them to your task list if you want.

Explore Explore tab gives you all the ways you can add to your daily experiences. Want to inculcate a new habit, collaborate on a routine with others or find a completely new activity you want to undertake? Explore tab is where you want to be.

Chat, Goal Sharing Our chat, Multiverse, built on NodeJS and Express allows our users to share their goals and interact with the community leading to positive reinforcement and an overall better relaxed and happier users.

Arcade Games Pleasant, short and simple arcade games like Run for Tranquility, 2048 and good old Sudoku are available in app (fully integrated in future versions). This makes the web app the single destination for all your daily needs to help you rewind, relax and rest.

Our Hackcation Journey

Technologies used

Dashboard and Web Application: ReactJS

Chat App: NodeJS, ExpressJS, Sockets.io

Games: React, jQuery, HTML, CSS and Javascript

Inspiration In these tough times, its 2020, when everyone is having a lot difficulty doing what they had planned for themselves, everyone switching to the virtual world. We thought of a way to build a virtual relaxation centre, where eventually everyone can find something or the other that calms them, takes them out of their everyday chaos at same time keeping them safe where they already are, in their homes. We specifically thought of a website since it should feel like a get away, unlike an app which you would see every now and then. We too are just a bunch of dreamers like everyone else, planning big things, and have learned to start small, so here is a way to let us help everyone.

What it does It indulges with you to try to relax you and calm you, to keep a tab on your mental health. Because nothing makes this website more happy other than knowing you are happy and relaxed.

How we built it This is the usual part you may have read a lot of times, brainstorm, then brainstorm and criticism and brainstorm after which we shifted ourselves to the designing and developing functionalities side by side. We aren't the perfectionists so we kept iterating in an agile way to make the product as perfect as possible for our users.

Challenges We ran into At first it was about how people are going to forget about their world for some time and get involved to actually enjoy the essence of the experience we are trying to give. That is crucial point when we pivoted from a single application to a set functionalities. Yes, there were a few technical and even non technical difficulties a bit right from crashing software to missing out on a semicolon, but those were the times we learned a lot more, so we won't count them as mere "obstacles".

Accomplishments that we are proud of Most of us were beginners, who have never worked such a type of hackathon before, and it was an awesome experience, plus managing to develop a market ready product in time crunch would never have been possible with procrastination qualities in humans. We also inherited a lot of knowledge from each other's skill sets. So, overall our major accomplishment can be stated as what our product is thriving to do, making us relaxed, satisfied and happy.

What's next for Play404 We intend to make it a fully functioning free as well as open source product for people that would monitor and improve their mental health, get rid of their stress anxiety etc all of this unknowingly, while they will be busy planning their virtual vacations.

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