ComeTogether

Project for the WintR Hackathon

WintR Hackathon

The WintR Hackathon challenged contestants to develop a piece of technology incorporating the phrase: "Technology is best when it brings people together"

What is ComeTogether?

ComeTogether is the project I developed for this hackathon. I named it ComeTogether, because after all, it is supposed to bring people together.
The project is a python-django web app allowing users to publish posts, in which they can animate other's to join them at an event, advertise an event (for example a hackathon) or simply search for fellow mates or friends to complete projects (like for example a hackathon) with together or to meetup with. The idea behind the web app is not to, like so many social media networks do, keep users scrolling on and on forever; but rather to help them find mates and friends with whom they can take on projects or simply meetup and have fun. The goal is therefore not to keep the users on the web page, but have them leave to pursue projects together with strangers or friends both online or locally.

Up until about half a year ago I barely knew anyone with whom I could share my fascination with computers with. Maybe if back then I had visited a site like this one, I would have met the people, who I talk to about computers all day now, much earlier.

Technological details

The implementation of this project is very simple:

the backend is built on the python-django framework and incorporates databases, user authentication, http request-response handling, ... (and pretty much everything else)
the database used is a SQLite db; however, it might as well just be a MySQL db or pretty much any other database.
in the frontend the implementation occurs through the use of css, javascript and html. No libraries for these are used.

## A bunch of demo images showing screenshots of the web app: