Inspiration
We have this idea right at the beginning of the Hackathon where we want to share this actual devpost link to our teammates but find a lack of conveient solution to share it to everyone without making a discord server/SMS relaying.
We also took a lot of inspiration from Apple's AirDrop and Handoff feature where text and files are continuously synced across devices under on account.
A part of our teams uses Android which does not support AirDrop so we want to create a platform where the fast content sharing is needed regardless of the end user's platform.
What it does
Unidrop is a super simple and easy to use clipboard/file sharing platform. Just with few click you can instantly share your clipboard text or file within the same local network(With the same public IP address) or to everyone else just a word!
How we built it
We use tailwind css as our UI framework, Express.js as backend framework, MongoDB as database with Redis caching on top of it. We deployed our service on AWS.
Challenges we ran into
We had issues with reading the clipboard from the browser due to browser permissions requirements. Theming dark mode and light mode between browsers and CSS had a few small problem we are all able to overcome them.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are very proud of we finished this app during the Hackathon. Not only that, we have given and received a lot of helps during the time we are doing the project which is great.
What we learned
We learned that vendor lock-in is bad and there should be open platform for information sharing. We also learned many new technologies such as object storage that can store file elsewhere on the application server.
What's next for UniDrop
We would like to integrate a file browser right into the app, with support for shared folders and online file explorer to become a more versatile file sharing platform. We would also like to built platform native apps to avoid browser incompatibility and permission requirements.
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