V-Date

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Inspiration:

Due to unfortunate circumstances, people are increasingly affected by isolation. A lot of dating applications have reported the increase in usage during social isolation, but most of the conversations end up being a chat (and nothing more). This leaves negative impact on the mental health of people. The time demands that people get access to the dating solution that can provide them with the best possible and realistic dating experience while staying indoor. It is becoming increasingly hard to start a meaningful relationship as that requires actually going on a “date”. We are here to solve the problem of dating due to social isolation and we have developed a platform that can help us in finding a “date” in these unprecedented times.

Mission:

Bringing the world closer, two people at a time.

Vision:

Our vision is not only to help people find a date but also tackle the mental and cognitive health-related challenges that have arisen due to social isolation. More than that, we intent to make social dating a new norm as we adapt to post-covid-19 world.

What it does:

We have created an application that will help people in social isolation by not only helping them find a good match but actually taking them on a “virtual date”. We provide the environment for the virtual date in terms of finding a match, scheduling a date, setting up the virtual menu and venue, setting up the right music, indulging in exciting games and more to make their virtual date as real and exciting as it can be.

How we built it:

Our MVP is a web-based application. Development work includes the front-end development of the application, back-end of the application, interface for picking the right partner and live video feature for going on a virtual date.

Challenges we ran into:

Challenges faced by our team include both the technical and management challenges. To manage a highly technical project while ensuring the social distance was a challenge in itself. In addition, there exists no solution that falls exactly in the category of some of the features offered by V-Date, so doing the market research offered its own challenges.

Due to a highly skilled team, we managed the technical work smoothly but still the feature of creating a complete virtual environment by training the system to be able to recognize the human in the video was a challenge, and it still demands work to reach a good level.

Accomplishments that we are proud of:

Accomplishment we are most proud of is our teamwork, the way everyone managed to get the work done in the limited time while working from a different locations. Other accomplishments include major progress in video background removal for creating a virtual environment. In addition, being able to create an application that is already close to MVP state in a limited time is a big achievement. But we strongly believe that all these accomplishments will fade away if you can manage to play our part in spreading love and bringing the people together.