Franklyapp

Currently in Beta release

Frankly

Frankly helps to make giving feedback easier. There are 4 methods that frankly can help you get feedback:

1. Through SMS: Frankly sends you the template to your phone, and you can copy it to any messaging app you like
2. Link: Simply share a URL
3. QR codes: Simply print QR codes to your own design and share it in the real world
4. Email: Simply email yourself the template or send it in a batch to your customers directly

Installation:

Technology:

The Frankly app is a Flask app wrapped in a docker image. The docker image is ran from AWS Lightsail container service. Most of the functionality has been hand built from scratch, except for SQLAlchemy for the Database, and a Twillio API for sending text messages. Most of the frontend is Bootstrap5 and chartJS for the graphs.

Set up:

• You'll need a configfile named Env_Settings.cfg that takes configuration keys like (Secret key, sql details, twillio API key, number of free responses , SMTP credentials, and a list of local stopwords).
• Upon startup the server will load in these keys so it can function
• You'll need an SQL server to store records. Connection details are also added to the env_settings file, however SQLite can be used as well

how to run:

To run a developmentserver run:

• python3 Developmentserver.py this will start the built in Flask development server. This is not recommended for production use

For production server:

• gunicorn.sh (for local running) Or to deploy to AWS:
• python3 deployscript.py to deploy to Lightsail and start the server there (This probably only works for me as you need very specific keys to deploy to amazon)

Cheers, Peter