Prohibere

Inspiration

Originally we took inspiration from the many scam call centres that we knew was a big problem such as Mark Rober's Insight on scam calls in his videos. Due to old people being around ~70+ years old being constantly targeted by scam callers, we decided it was a great problem we can tackle!

What it does

We decided to build a call forwarding centre for old people. The idea that we wanted was to funnel all the calls old people receive into a single number. From here, the people who call go through a vetting system by our AI which decides whether the caller is a scammer. If decided the caller is a scammer, we put the caller on a blacklist and ban them from calling the number again. If decided the caller is not a scammer, we put the caller on a whitelist and allow them through. From here on out, the caller can then dial the extension of the person their trying to call to contact them. As well, to not be able to take any scam calls as the person itself, they would have to block all numbers except for their contacts and the number which is our number service.

How we built it

We built the whole application using Twilio's API, where we had the application run on with the phone number we used. With that, we hosted our application on our local computers using NGROK's local tunnelling to host our flask application to connect to our Twilio phone number.

Challenges we ran into

Through building the whole application, have to say we did a whole lot considering the amount of problems we ran into. With Twilio to have a whole ton of documentation to skim through and our specific app requirements to connect with AI gpt, we have to say that it was very challenging. Though, at the end of the day, we can defiantly say we learned a lot, built something great and did a great job!

What we learned

Building projects in under 24 hours
Using Twilio API
Figuring out local live hosting FLASK servers with NGROK
Work through the project while team members had external activities ## What's next for Prohibere During the last 24 hours, we do have to say we built a lot with Prohibere, though there are a good amount of features that we'd definently want to implement if we have more than 24 hours.