What it does

Aya is mobile app in which you can compete in challenges with your friends. You can challenge your friends and complete challenges you received from them. A challenge consists of picture you take with your phone in which you complete the challenge you want your friend to complete. Your friend has then 24 hours to complete the challenge by replying with a picture he takes that proves his completion.

How we built it

Mobile app:

react native
javascript
html

Backend:

rails
firebase (push notifications support)

Challenges we ran into

design of the mobile app
changing features
getting friends new to programming up to speed

What did we learn

How to make an app when half the team is sick
Boilerplate code uses a big chunk of your dev time

Accomplishments

It's working well
We focused realy well on the Minimal Viable Product by leaving out everything non essential
Lots of future improvements such as

Future Improvements