Hack the Burgh VIII - Verble!

Built in 24 hours at Hack the Burgh.

Etymology

It's wordle but verbal, hence verble.

Now (thanks to domain.com) it's hosted at verble.tech.

That domain expired - should really put it on GitHub pages...

Inspiration

It's the a spin on the modern instant classic wordle, except you speak your words. The speech to text is provided by AssemblyAI's API.

Technologies

• React for main app
• NodeJS for server
• From scratch HTML/ CSS

Challenges

• Hosting (team lacks the arcane knowledge apparently required to use google cloud hosting)
• We did a web project again despite that face we both hate web dev
• Had to recreate wordle from scratch
• Looking stupid as we shouted "TRY ADIEU TRY ADIEU" at our computers at 2am

Achievements

• Very responsive design - works across literally every device we had at our table
• It's up and hosted (after blood sweat and CORS-induced tears)