TomatoSoup

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Inspiration

Lonely people on reddit

What it does

Tomato Soup helps to bring together the students here at UoA by helping them connect through their shared hobbies. To help foster a cozy community, there are no likes involved, instead users will get a feed based on their hobby preference. The feed is in chronological order, and users are able to click on posts and comment on them. We also have a discovery panel to the right side that brings up new posts, or the most viewed posts. We also have integrated a TomatoSoup Agent to help create discourse by reviving old popular posts, and scraping free news sites for discussion topic to post about.

How we built it

Django integrated with AI

Challenges we ran into

Database issues
how to integrate AI
AI
requirements.txt version control

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Chips
Integrating an AI agent
Old school UI design

What we learned

How to make an AI agent.
Picking group members is better then being assigned them
Soup is more inclusive then Tomoato
Tomatoe is British, Tomato is Canadian
Implementing custom Django authorization
html things

What's next for TomatoSoup

Filtering to allow users to peek at other hobbies.
Dynamic topics (adding/removing hobby topics by the admin).
Custom profile photo uploading.
Hottest topic should be filtered to only show the most viewed from the past 7 days.
Automate AI generation to follow specific frequencies (e.g. once per day, once per week, etc)
Personalize AI agent a bit more
Markdown support
Chips for hobby identification on posts
Get this bad boy up so that we don't have anymore db issues between the three of us