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UpLift

Objective An iOS app empowering users to build a community of support by sharing their life stories in order to encourage, inspire, and uplift one another.

Video Walkthrough

GIF created with LiceCap.

Plan --> Prod

Stand-Ups

• x Wireframes
• x Sprints and scrum tickets.
• x Instagram-Style view-controllers with respective branches
• x Real-time upload and download videos (GCP)
• Store feelings(comments) during “uplifting” moments (GCP)
• x Death confirmation to send public eulogy chat bot (Twilio and Heroku)
• Sentiment-Analysis disabling negative comments (Watson)
• Bot for speech-to-navigation for easier accessibility (Watson)

Roadblocks

• Merging branches with iOS storyboard conflicts.
• Uploading camera video recording and caching for seamless scroll UX.
• Dequeuing table view cells for unlimited feed.
• Firebase and Xcode shenanigans. Restarted project 12am Sunday.

Useful Links

• Google Drive
• Team Slack
• IBM Promo Code Instruction
• Our IBM bot environment
• Firebase Newsfeed

Team

Team Members:

• Matthew Rodriguez, Baruch College (Back-end)
• Helal Chowdhury, NYU (AI + Front-end) First iOS!
• Kevin Chen, NYU (Front-end) First iOS!
• Joseph Shimonov, Queens College (Front-end) First iOS!
• Ahmed Razin, NYU (Design UI/UX) First iOS!

Built With

• google-cloud-firebase
• ibm-watson-assistant
• python-scripts
• swift