WeBuzz Community Networking Tool

Inspiration

We were inspired by the situation of social awkwardness where everyone has something to share yet struggling to find the right audience. When we first enter university, it is pretty much our first interactions with people that determine our first friend group. Yet if we have the whole community in front of us and free to browse activities that interest you, you can go and find new people to talk and meet up.

What it does

It connects everyone in a community (can be EVERYONE in a university) For event initiator: posting on the activity board and wait for people to join you. You would automatically have a chat made for you that would have an expiration period of time that the event initiator can change. Once the activity is done the chat can be deleted by the event owner. (so when the activity is over, it is assumed that people will have added each other on Instagram and Facebook already). For people looking for things to do: they can search the activities by tags or names and join.

WeBuzz is much spontaneous and is very activity-based. To do something fun, you don't have to apply for a club and go through the long approval process, it gathers people with the same passion and interest together to do something fun.

How I built it

We brainstormed using Miro as a rough draft We built it mainly on glide by manipulating data on a google sheet.

Challenges I ran into

Learning a new app tool within a short span of time Implementing ideas into the features of the app Glide doesn't support multiple user collaboration, thus a clear delegation of the task is necessary.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Clear articulation of the idea in the beginning of the hackathon earned us time later to develop features of the app Being able to find Glide as a tool and see the actual progress of building an app Being able to adapt to the functions that glide offers and adapt our features to suit the interface of glide All of us are very passionate about the development of this app We balanced our time and had some rest during this hackathon!

What I learned

Mindmapping and flow charts can be very useful in explaining ideas There are many tools out there to making the innovation progress easier, thus learning the tools can be essential Communication is the key to ensure everyone is on board and know how the app works

What's next for WeBuzz Community Networking Tool

We are really confident in our application's versatility. Hopefully, given more time and resources, we can implement some of the features we would've otherwise like our application to have, such as group chats, join button, as well as a home tab (see video for full details)

Built With

• glide
• googlesheet