ScrewTheCurve

Arjun Sarao & Bram Ogus

💡 Inspiration

We wanted to create an app that would allow students to be easily connected based on shared classes and exam scores. This can be useful in creating study groups, finding group assignment partners or even complaining about tests.

📱 What it does

Users create an account using their emails. They can then flesh out a small profile by filling out a bio, adding a profile picture, linking social media handles (Instagram, Messenger, GitHub, Slack, LinkedIn, etc.), and selecting what classes they are currently taking or have already taken. Once they have set up their accounts, they can scroll through people who are in similar classes or have similar interests. If they both agree to match, their social media handles are revealed to each other. From there, they can create plans on their desired social media platform.

📃 Full Feature List

Firebase for storing user data
Selection of classes
Linking social media handles
Swipe through people who have similar classes and/or interests

🛠 How we built it

Adobe XD: We designed the mockups in Adobe XD to figure out the UI/UX and the general flow of the app
Swift: We wrote the entire app in Swift.
- SwiftUI: Was used to create the frontend using various components
Firebase:
- FirebaseAuth: FirebaseAuth handles logging in and authorizations
- FireStore: Firestore acted as our database to store user data (email, name, classes, connections, etc.)

🛑 Challenges we ran into

We didn't know Swift before this so learning an entire language was quite difficult
Figuring out a simple yet effective solution for fostering communication between students after they have matched
Making sure that sign-in was persistent