Ravex

Inspiration

Inspired by the underground rave scene in the DMV area. We decided to create a platform to streamline underground exclusive events, specifically raves and parties. A platform where organizers can see real time data on a dashboard and have others manage guest entrance and the safety of the communities. This is a solution to making sure underground communities keep their safe space while also attracting the right people. This is possible by making event location distribution easier and more efficient and by screening potential attendees and allowing only those who fit in. A problem a lot of these communities face is gaining popularity and having their space ruined. Popularity brings in the wrong crowds for a lot of these communities and can drive people away and ruin the experience as a whole.

What it does

An app to manage events, focusing on guest, bouncer, and organizer interactions.

Organizers create and manage events.
Attendees go through a pre-screening process.
Bouncers check in attendees at the event and can flag them.
Organizers get real-time updates from bouncers via Redis.
Organizers can remember flagged/banned attendees for future events, but bans are scoped to that organizer.

How we built it

We didnt end up finishing the project but we learned a lot. We created a Rails app on a react frontend and a MongoDB database.

Challenges we ran into

A lot of our time was eaten up by learning and troubleshooting just trying to make sure the API calls work and the frontend works in tandem with our Rails API. We managed to make this work consistently but didn't have enough energy and time to make everything else work and implement the features we wanted for a demo. We also wrote our databse in JavaScript so we need to connect it to the Rails API and send data back and forth from front end. This turns our Rails API into a backend hub. It added more complexity. We have decided to work on this after the hackathon and make it a reality.