Send Me a Text

What is it?

A Wix App created during Wix's London Hackathon, that allows website users to send a text message to the website owner via the website. Pre-Wix version can be found here.

How was it done?

Created over a day and a half (including all night coding) with a team of 5 people, 3 of which contributed to the code: Nicolas Carey, Nikesh Ashar and myself.

Which technologies were used?

• Angular.js
• Bower
• Wix's Javascript SDK
• Postgres
• DataMapper
• Rspec
• Ruby
• Twilio API
• Sinatra
• Heroku

My contribution

For 4 to 5 hours I pair-programmed with Nikesh Ashar and then spent most of the night coding by myself. I built the backend, including database models, Sinatra server, and integration with Twilio API. I worked with Nicolas Carey to integrate the front-end he had built into the app. We then used Heroku to put the app online.

What did I learn?

• Working as a team with people from very different backgrounds, that I didn't know before
• Importance of sticking to the bare minimum features for a Hackathon product
• Coding all night can be fun!