Remit is a peer-to-peer payment system with a quick one time set up process. Once you create an account, either through SMS or the website, making a transaction takes only a couple of seconds.

Xpring-js

Nodejs

Heroku

Ngrok

Twilio Autopilot SMSBot

FireStore

Firebase Database

Firebase Authentication

Firebase Hosting

HTML/CSS/JS/JQuery/BootStrap

Originally we were going to use Interledger, we spent many hours trying to wrap our head around it and utilize it but in the end we dropped it because we found out that it would require many more hours of learning OTHER api's built on the open source platform in order to make anything of interledger. We stuck with Xpring however because it was much simpler to set up a testing environment.

As of right now Remit can only perform XRP to XRP transactions because we're using Xpring Ledger and not Interledger; The "$" on our website is a bit misleading and will be fixed soon.

We're planning on redesigning our website to look much better, we're going to implement Interledger so that our peer-to-peer payment system can support more currencies than just XRP, and we're also looking to develop a much better authentication system for the internetless SMS authentication.

Some of our ideas for a more secure SMS authentication as of right now are: single-use SMS passwords (we'll have a way for you to create a new single-use one), possibly some type of physical hardware key of some sort, or through the use of some type of encryption protocol.

We're also planning to acquire a phone number in every country code so that the SMSBot can be accessible globally when we're in production.

You'll have to run the xpring.js that's inside of the app directory something along the lines of

cd -/Remit/app
node xpring.js

As for the web application you'll need to download the node package (firebase) and server the content locally

cd -/Remit/public
firebase serve

As of currently there is no availability public to test out the SMSBot yet because it's on built with Twilio AutoPilot through the Twilio Dashboard Interface and not through Command Line Interface. This means we did not use a backend server like nodejs + twilio API. More about this can be seen in the SMSBot directory as PNG's of proof of the Twilio Dashboard implementation.

That was just us playing around with the Twilio API on python and nodejs BEFORE we decided to use the Dashboard Interface's AutoPilot feature which was just much easier and less work to develop a fully fledged SMSbot.

cd -/Remit/SMSBot

Sadly the hosted version of our web app does not work yet and you'll have to run it locally with the steps above to make it work.