take.care

Inspiration

During these unprecedented times, all of us have been stuck at home taking active part in the internet community. As days goes by, our healthy well being becomes our prime importance. Taking inspiration from here we build take.care, a one in all fitness and mental well being spot to grab all your motivation to build your healthy lifestyle.

What it does

Take.care is a website build to target the demography of people that are seeking motivation to lead a healthy lifestyle. It provides a social platform to express your opinions and lessons on how to lead a healthy lifestyle with other fitness freaks like you. In the form of blogs, moments and workouts take.care helps you share your views and thoughts. It helps you follow other health seeking individuals, like each others content, save stuff for you to refer to later and even express your thoughts on other people's content through comments. Music is the food to the soul, and hence we couldn't leave it out! Take.care allows you to share your favorite spotify playlists with your followers and view the same from your favorite fit buddies. Integrating your fitness stats into our website is an integral part and hence we use Google fit stats to keep track of your steps taken and activity time in your timeline. There's also a low-tier recommender system build that helps you recieve personalized content from users outside your circle, that you would most probably enjoy.

How we built it

We build take.care using one of the most reputed python full stack frameworks out there, Django. We started off by creating different models for our huge number of components our application has. We then started creating and styling the html pages one by one using HTML,CSS and Js. We used the bootstrap framework to help us with our css. For the database, we used the traditional sqlite database that comes along with django initialization. We made use of third party Spotify APIs and GoogleFit APIs to make functionalities for songs and fitness data in our application. For hosting, we are running django on a VM on gcp's compute engine.

What's next for take.care

We believe that building an internet community of fitness freaks is something that would inspire a lot of the newer generations to follow a healthy lifestyle and in turn have a better quality of life. There are tons of features we had ideated but hadn't implemented due to the time constraint. Some things to look into would be: to build a better recommender system using ML techniques, making drastic UI changes and probably a more personalized experience for the customers. On the techstack side, we look onto separating the monolith structure of the application into separate frontend and backend codebases, most probably making use of react and django drf. Having a dedicated database server is on the list too.