Modern life overwhelms us with choices. Five coffee shops on the way in to work. Hundreds of television stations. Thousands of movies available to stream at our slightest whim. This choice can paralyze even the brightest, keenest minds of our generation.
Introducing OK Kyle, the revolutionary new app that frees you from the tyranny of choice. Meet Kyle, a charming redhead from quaint Lancaster county. Swipe left, swipe right, all you get is Kyle. No longer will your dating app inundate you with options, as soon as you download the app, you have made your choice.
Fear not though advocates of options, you have near infinite Kyles at your disposal. Prefer a sportier man? There's a Kyle for that. Want a guy that can cook you an amazing meal? There's a Kyle for that. Even though he's just one man, his range will surprise and delight you.
We here at OK Kyle know that there will be a Kyle for you. Time to visit the site and start swiping!
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React Single Page Application
Enjoy the lightening quick response time of a React application so that you can view more Kyles in less time. As you swipe, there are no page reloads, only blissful Fetch calls to make your swiping life easier and quicker.
The app follows a container, component architecture pattern to make editing the code easier as well for all who wish to contribute to the project.
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Ruby on Rails API Back-end with ActiveModel Serializer
Built on the powerful and reliable Rails framework, OK Kyle's growingly complex feature set will run efficiently and effectively for a stable user experience.
ActiveModel Serializer also makes editing and working with the API incredibly easy including the use of nested models within our JSON responses.
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ActionCable
ActionCable runs Ok-Kyle's chat feature. Using this cutting edge web sockets technology you can interact with your Kyle instantly. As soon as you're matched, the application will create a chatroom for you and you can get talking!
If you're a Kyle, not to worry, there is a handy (if incredibly simple) AI built in for you to autorespond with a "spicy" response when things are getting a little out of control.
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Full Custom Styling
Kyle is a special man and he deserves his very own styling. Despite learning a good bit about CSS frameworks such as Foundation, we decided to implement the styling from scratch in this project to learn more about SASS and all it has to offer. While creating a unique product for Kyle, it also enabled us to experiment with media queries and understand far better what CSS frameworks are doing under the hood.
This application was initially created during Launch Academy's Ship It Saturday hackathon (this team's second)! During this time, we achieved an MVP with the swipe and match functionality . After the event, we continued to iterate over many features and added a substantial amount of code to get the product to where we wanted!