Break-Connect by Team1337

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  The user can list themselves as being on break

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  These message logs dissapear after the break is over, just like a short conversation in the workplace in the breakroom

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  Once on break, others can message the user- or the user can choose a co-worker to message

Inspiration

An attempt to tackle the social isolation in a distributed workplace by re-introducing one on one time and general chitchat to an employee base.

What it does

Employees, or peers (students) can match with other people in their organisation (dating app style). The focus is however on the general life catch ups that are lost in a WFH environment. Ie. chatting to a co-worker about their new car, or their sibling graduating from uni.

How we built it

Our app runs in Django, and the messaging component was running locally in docker containers, using websocket to connect chat instances

Challenges we ran into

Creating a responsive app in django, as none of us have much front end experience

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The messaging component is really cool! and we love the UI

What we learned

We'd like to use a more modern web framework in our next hackathon!

What's next for Break-Connect

Implementing the ability to import a schedule and have breaks automatically start rather than be manually started by the user.

Built With

• adobexd
• django
• heroku
• python
• websocket