An application that helps create connections based on shared interests, according to the geographical living area of the users.
What is it?
Hoodz is an application that helps create connections based on shared interests, according to the geographical living area of the users. When moving to a big city without knowing the people living in our area, it can be hard to form interpersonal relationships and have a sense of belonging to the community, which can lead to feelings of loneliness, impared health, low subjective well-being and risk of developing depression.
Therefore we created Hoodz, using the app, you can join activities suitable to your interests in your area, or create activities and invite others to join. You can filter the activities according to your personal preferences, view the activities you created, and see past and future activities you’ve joined. When joining an activity, you can talk to other people who have joined in a chat dedicated to the specific activity. We believe that through joint activities, close and meaningful relationships can develop.
Project Info
Students: Adi Peretz, Barak Amzaleg, Hadar Landau, Omer lehrer, Shira Rubin
Lecturer: Dr Noa Morag
Technological lecturers: Eran Ilani
Teaching Assistants: Ofir Sadka
How does it work?
Hoodz is an app developed with VS Code as an IDE, which is based on the React framework for Javascript, HTML and CSS. It uses Firebase as a database, and for authentication needs, and Node.js is used to communicate with this service. When first entering the app, the user needs to sign up. After filling in his details and pressing “Sign Up”, the app sends a request to the database to add the user with a new unique id and his details. After signing up, the user reaches the homepage. At that step, the app sends a request to the database to get all the activities already created to show them on the map according to their location. Then the user can press an activity, see its information and join, or decide to create a new activity through the ‘add activity’ page. Each user action causes a database change accordingly.