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Questionnaire Page
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Maps Exploration Page
Inspiration
Meeting people in the modern day is extremely difficult, and we think technology could play a big role in helping with that. Since people are always with their phone to begin with, we thought a game would be the perfect choice in inspiring people to go out and spark connections.
What it does
The user makes an account to track their interests. After a questionnaire, the app can start making predictions in interests according to several different criteria. Then the app will drop the user into a game where the player is on a map of the real world surrounded by pins tied to locations our ai model has deemed to be interesting to the user according to their questionnaire scores. The user will have incentives to explore these place with quest like challenges that will serendipitously promote human connection
How we built it
This app is built on React for the frontend, flask hosting google-gemini for the ai backend, express for api calls to yelp for peer reviews, and SQLite for our database. React will handle the forms that will fill out the user and check if the user exists against the database. Then react will make a post request to the gemini back end which will compare the preference data with the reviews data to give a personalized list of interests in the area.
Challenges we ran into
A lot of these technologies we chose were the very first time some of us used them. Having to not only learn syntax on top of implementation makes the process much harder.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
The progress we did manage to make was something we were proud of. All team members definitely took some sort of lesson from this experience.
What we learned
We learned the difficulties of managing a large project amongst multiple people.
What's next for Rendez-you
Adding more categories for the users to express their interests to give more data points on users . This will help gemini make more informed decisions.
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