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Relationship simplified.

Team:

Nischay Murthy, Executive Program Analyst (github: nmurthy9)
Nick Zimmerer, Public Relations Representative (github: nzimm)
Bum Kim, Quality Assurance Manager (github: bumshakabum)
Alex Urbanski, Human Resources (github: aurbanski)
Michael Neuder, Chief Visionary (github: michaelneuder)

Project title:

she

Project description:

Do you ever get tired of being asked if you are still single? Are your parents waiting anxiously for you to bring someone home? Are your friends pestering you to find someone? Then she is the app for you! This mobile and web app will simulate a girlfriend by creating fake social media accounts for our users. The user will recieve photos, texts, phone calls, snapchats, etc. from this virtual girlfriend. A trick so convincing everyone will believe that she is real. Take it one step farther and become a premium member to request in person appearances at family events or parties, where other users will pretend to be your significant other. Who knows, maybe you will find a connection!

Vision statement:

The freedom of being single, with the social status of being taken.
To give users the appearance of having a significant other, and provide companionship to them.

Motivation: for working on this particular project (Why would you develop this?)

Provide the illusion of a girlfriend without requiring any real-life interaction

Risks: to project completion

Most of the team is new to app and web development
A scope of a mobile app and a web app could be too broad
With 5 collaboraters, communication may prove to be difficult
Syncronization of multiple design vectors will be crutial to success

Mitigation strategy for dealing with the risk

Sharing knowledge as we learn will accelerate the learning curve
Frequent communication will assist in project synchronization
Taking advantage of pre-existing tools and technology will improve our coordination

List of requirements: for the project

Story #1: "As a lonely man, I want some interaction no matter how fake." (10 pts)

Story #2: "As a parent I want to see my son posting pictures with his girlfriend." (60 pts - requires doctoring pictures to seem real)

Story #3: "As a son, I want my parents to think I have a girlfriend." (5 pts - behavior to fool parents)

Story #4: "As a 20-something, I want to impress my friends with the fact that I have a girlfriend." (10 pts - belivable history on social media)

Story #5: "As I prankster, I want to make my friends think that someone is interested in them online." (20 pts - automated, lifelike contact)

Story #6: "As a busy student, I want it to appear like I have a girlfriend on social media, while still focusing on my schoolwork." (20 pts)

Story #7: "As a child, I want to bring someone to a family gathering to fool my parents into thinking I am socially competent." (60pts - set up a platform to support pairing people who want free food with someone who needs a temporary 'significant other.')

Methodology

We plan on following a mix of Agile and waterfall, so we can better focus on developing particular skillsets and applying them to the project.

Project Tracking software:

BaseCamp

https://3.basecamp.com/3670469/projects/2748839

Project plan: created from your Project Tracking software. Copy-paste the

plan (or screenshot of) from your project tracking software into the repository

Format:

To Run

1) Pull from github, just to make sure everything is up to date

2) Go into she_app directory. This is the directory for the app

3) Run this in the terminal in the she_app directory

$bundle install

this installs all of the dependencies for the web app

4) In the terminal is she_app directory run

$bin/rails db:migrate

this will migrate the database locally so that the dynamic pages will work

5) In the terminal, in the she_app directory, run

$bin/rails server

this will serve the page to localhost:3000

Also Hosted on Heroku

Hosted web app

abumsoo/she

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