Sea of Thoughts
A Place to Connect. A Place to Express
A web application used to connect with people through small messages in a bottle. Throw your thoughts out to sea, and let someone read them and get connected with you. A novel way of mixing meditation, writing, and connection.
View it here (HTTPS required)
Features
- A calming, relaxing, minimalist UI/UX in a single page webapp
- Responsive design for multiple screen sizes
- Send and receive messages in a bottle from other users currently online
- Ability to play calming music and piano
- ASMR sound effects when typing, sending and receiving bottles
- Day/Night modes, which automatically detect and switch
- Sea who else is in the sea of thoughts
HackMIT2020 Project Link
View the project on HackMIT's Spectacle
Hackers
- Michal Bodzianowski - @ItsMichal / LinkedIn
- Rebecca Coryell - @RebeccaCoryell / LinkedIn
- Taryn Hovenkamp - @thovenkamp / LinkedIn
- Jamie Joung - @jamjoung / LinkedIn
Directions
Simply run node app.js on the webserver of your choice. Heroku deploy button coming soon.
Notes
- Responsive, but not yet 100% mobile-friendly
- Would like to expand on back-end given more time
- Done in approximately 12 hours straight from 9/19/2020 - 9/20/2020
- Https is required due to a
p5.sound.jsrestriction
Credit
- Ocean Music - https://youtu.be/lnAT9hcVyo8
- Piano Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOZOBff2FrI
- Pen SFX - https://youtu.be/7N3C8jIFICE
- Splash SFX - https://youtu.be/bpBLyDZRJDU
- Cork SFX - https://youtu.be/qDwzN0t0AN4
- Other credits sourced in code