153BabyHack

What it does

Would you like an easier way to manage your schedule? With our planning tool, you can simplify your life by automatically organizing your tasks for the week ahead! The Google Extension takes in a certain amount of tasks that the user inputs, and automatically block out time and schedule in these tasks on your Google Calendar to create a seamless and effortless way of making sure you actually accomplish the tasks you need to get done.

How we built it

We created a Chrome Extension calendar task manager. We used React Typescript to implement the front end and used a Python Flask framework and GCal API for the back end.

Challenges we ran into

For 3/4 of us, this was our first hackathon, and coming up with a solid idea was incredibly difficult. Additionally, none of us have had much experience with coding in Python, least of all, creating an entire Chrome Extension. Add to that challenge, most of us didn't know anything about Flask or React, or how the front-end and back-end worked together. Essentially, we were completely new to the entire process.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We created a working Chrome extension and successfully integrated it with an API!! It's not the prettiest and many functionalities could be improved on and expanded on if given the time, but it is up and working.

What's next for 153BabyHack

More Hackathons! For this project in particular, we want to add functionality to the Chrome extension and have it display the tasks when they're opened, allow people to check them off, and clean up some hard-coded things in the backend.