CreatorBeacon

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Inspiration

• I'm a small, up-and-coming YouTuber, ready to take this world by storm.
• I've recently run into trouble organizing giveaways and little events for my viewer base.
• So, my friend and I've created CreatorBeacon, allowing me, and you, to easily organize giveaways and meetups with our fans.

What it does

• Allows you to organize meetups and giveaways easily
• Generates a QR code that fans can scan and instantly be entered in the giveaway
• Stores the winners and entries in a CockroachDB database hosted on the Google Cloud so the data is safe and won't be lost no matter how many people access your giveaway at once

How we built it

• We built a web application using the Django framework in Python
• Used a CockroachDB database hosted on the Google Cloud
• We designed the logo and front-end ourselves

Challenges we ran into

• One challenge we ran into was pushing ourselves and taking on technical challenges we had never encountered before, such as accepting image uploads from users
• Dealing with different time zones and time formats also challenged us quite a bit
• We expanded our front-end design skills by challenging ourselves to build a polished website

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Creating a beautiful front-end
• Building a website from scratch in a weekend

What we learned

• It is important to build error handling and handle failures as they come up
• If too many are left, it can become very difficult to fix all of them in the end

What's next for CreatorBeacon

• Making the website more stable and adding more user forms

Built With

• cockroachdb
• django
• google-cloud
• python