Intellivo is a web application built with the Flask framework. The app facilitates an intellectual conversation between two users by providing starter questions in the chat room. Our matching algorithm intelligently matches users based on differences, similar to the idea behind a dating-app.
While important intellectual conversations have been happening on social media platforms, the problem is that these difficult discussions tends to happen over social media, where we have platforms such as Instagram composed of friends and other like-minded individuals whose beliefs and values tend to align with their own. Intellivo works to elimintate the creation of this echo chamber by providing a safe place to both better educate ourselves and understand the origins of various perspectives.
- Madhu Akula - mentor
- Jake Schechner - mentor
- Chelsea Fernandes - product manager
- Ishani Chakraborty - software developer
- Sejal Dua - software developer
- Cindy Ramirez - software developer
- Adeline Leung - UI/UX designer
There are 4 main features that we want to have implemented for our MVP
- User authentication - Oauth 2.0
- Chat room backend - Flask-SocketIO & SQLALCHEMY
- Matching algorithm - Principle Component Analysis + K-Means Clustering in Python
- Website interface - Flask, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap
- Anyone can pull the docker image and quickly run locally using the below command
docker run --name intellivo-app -p 5000:5000 ishanichakraborty1/intellivo- Then navigate to the http://127.0.0.1:5000
This project is part of the internHacks 2020, a 6-week hackathon.
Week 1: ideation & basic design
Week 2: initial architectural and visual design
Week 3: work on tasks asynchronously
Week 4: user testing and structural implementation of the app
Week 5: integration
Week 6: deployment & design considerations