HackerMatch

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Inspiration

Seeing people in discord looking for teammates half-way through this hackathon.

What it does

HackerMatch collects a record of people who are at any hackathon, getting many important notes of information such as: major, interests, project ideas, skills, and position preference.

How we built it

We had a pretty simple tech-stack consisting of javascript, vscode, and bootstrap 5 for front-end, flask, mySQL, and python for backend.

Challenges we ran into

Thinking of how to normalize the tables to the data flows properly, constructing the queries to work well with the schema to optimize the performance, and the connection of our back-end to our front-end;

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud to have managed to complete a version of idea that is close to a functional mvp, which for our first time was extremely chaotic.

What we learned

We all learned several skills during our time in this hackathon: leadership, optimization of queries, communications, git, bootstrapper, databases, mySQL, powershell, and the intricacies of making a website.

What's next for HackerMatch

We plan to fix the flow of the website given that the restrictions didn't let us properly organize the website, and hopefully if we manage to catch the attention of the INIT, we'd like to fully develop the idea into a product that INIT could use to prevent students from going solo in INIT sponsored hackathons again.