www.infinity2o.com

Inspiration

My brother & I have taken over 15 online courses from coursera.org & edx.org. We <3 learning the content but never met anyone new, so we created a web app to match people that would enjoy working together on online courses.

What it does

A "Sorting Hat", inspired from Harry Potter, collects user beliefs. Anyone can ask any question & vote on any question. We use each user's votes to match them with the other users that have the highest intersection of beliefs.

How I built it

React.js/Redux, Typescript/ES6, Python, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, Google & LinkedIn Oauth2, Express, Heroku, Chron tab, Socket.io, SendGrid, & various APIs.

Challenges I ran into

1. Trouble using socket.io's API to detect when a user leaves the site.

Greatest Satisfaction so far

Users that have responded back about how much they've wanted a product like infinity2o.

What I learned

Every problem does not have a perfect tool, but finding the right tool for the problem is an important part of

What's next for www.infinity2o.com

Getting as much feedback from as much user's as possible.

Built With

• chrontab
• ec2
• express.js
• google-&-linkedin-oauth2
• heroku
• javascript
• mongodb
• python
• rabbitmq
• react
• redis
• redux
• sendgrid
• socket.io
• typescript/es6