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Main screen
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Example data
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Post screen
Inspiration
I was inspired by the fact that the fastest way to get news was to see it on Twitter first. These are stories built by people, so I decided to create a platform dedicated to crowdsourcing news stories, so people are able to read stories as soon as it happens and without any bias.
What it does
Opening up the app will let you see local news, and any important world events going on. You can report a story that happened near you too. If enough people report the story, the backend server will attempt to create a summary of the story. It uses natural language processing to determine the most important sentences and creates a news article based on that.
How I built it
I used React Native for the front end. The backend was created with Flask.
Challenges I ran into
I spent the first 10 hours trying to link react-native-maps into my React Native project. Dependency hell.
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