## Inspiration

Answer: Our increasingly complex lives demand more than just a reminder tool; they need an understanding partner. We witnessed the strain of juggling health, work, academic responsibilities, and social lives. This inspired the creation of Edith – a comprehensive, intuitive, and health-conscious planner.

## What it does

Answer: Edith is an intelligent calendar that not only plans your day but also considers your health, stress levels, and preferences. Through integration with multiple APIs, it suggests Spotify playlists for stress, plans academic tasks, offers horoscope-based guidance, allows conversational planning, and even suggests activities based on the weather. It's a complete, holistic approach to daily planning.

## How we built it

Answer: Edith is a product of diverse API integrations. By harnessing the power of Terra API for health metrics, Spotify API for mood music, Canvas/Blackboard for academic commitments, Horoscope for celestial insights, OpenAI for chat-based planning, and Weather APIs, we developed a cohesive, user-friendly application. Our team utilized agile development, ensuring regular iterations and refinements based on user feedback.

## Challenges we ran into

Answer: Combining multiple API integrations seamlessly was our primary challenge. Ensuring real-time updates while maintaining the app's speed and responsiveness required optimized backend solutions. Also, refining Edith's AI to offer genuinely useful, not overwhelming, suggestions was a careful balancing act.

## Accomplishments that we're proud of

Answer: We are immensely proud of Edith's ability to "understand" individual users. Its adaptive learning and predictive capabilities set it apart from conventional planners. Our beta testing showed a significant reduction in users' reported stress levels and an increase in their daily productivity.

## What we learned

Answer: We learned the importance of user-centric design. By conducting surveys and continuous feedback loops, we understood the real needs of our audience. Technically, we also grasped the nuances of integrating diverse APIs to work harmoniously within a singular platform.

## What's next for Edith

Answer: We envision expanding Edith's capabilities with more integrations, like fitness trackers and meal planning tools. We're also looking into developing a community feature, allowing users to share tips, strategies, and success stories, fostering a supportive Edith community.
## Inspiration

We have a desire to spread awareness surrounding health issues in modern society. We also love data and the insights in can provide, so we wanted to build an application that made it easy and fun to explore the data that we all create and learn something about being active and healthy.

## What it does

Our web application processes data exported by Apple health and provides visualizations of the data as well as the ability to share data with others and be encouraged to remain healthy. Our educational component uses real world health data to educate users about the topics surrounding their health. Our application also provides insight into just how much data we all constantly are producing.

## How we built it

We build the application from the ground up, with a custom data processing pipeline from raw data upload to visualization and sharing. We designed the interface carefully to allow for the greatest impact of the data while still being enjoyable and easy to use.

## Challenges we ran into

We had a lot to learn, especially about moving and storing large amounts of data and especially doing it in a timely and user-friendly manner. Our biggest struggle was handling the daunting task of taking in raw data from Apple health and storing it in a format that was easy to access and analyze.

## Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of the completed product that we came to despite early struggles to find the best approach to the challenge at hand. An architecture this complicated with so many moving components - large data, authentication, user experience design, and security - was above the scope of projects we worked on in the past, especially to complete in under 48 hours. We're proud to have come out with a complete and working product that has value to us and hopefully to others as well.

## What we learned

We learned a lot about building large scale applications and the challenges that come with rapid development. We had to move quickly, making many decisions while still focusing on producing a quality product that would stand the test of time.

## What's next for Open Health Board

We plan to expand the scope of our application to incorporate more data insights and educational components. While our platform is built entirely mobile friendly, a native iPhone application is hopefully in the near future to aid in keeping data up to sync with minimal work from the user. We plan to continue developing our data sharing and social aspects of the platform to encourage communication around the topic of health and wellness.
## Problem

In these times of isolation, many of us developers are stuck inside which makes it hard for us to work with our fellow peers. We also miss the times when we could just sit with our friends and collaborate to learn new programming concepts. But finding the motivation to do the same alone can be difficult.

## Solution

To solve this issue we have created an easy to connect, all in one platform where all you and your developer friends can come together to learn, code, and brainstorm together.

## About

Our platform provides a simple yet efficient User Experience with a straightforward and easy-to-use one-page interface.

We made it one page to have access to all the tools on one screen and transition between them easier.

We identify this page as a study room where users can collaborate and join with a simple URL.

Everything is Synced between users in real-time.

## Features

Our platform allows multiple users to enter one room and access tools like watching youtube tutorials, brainstorming on a drawable whiteboard, and code in our inbuilt browser IDE all in real-time. This platform makes collaboration between users seamless and also pushes them to become better developers.

## Technologies you used for both the front and back end

We use Node.js and Express the backend. On the front end, we use React. We use Socket.IO to establish bi-directional communication between them. We deployed the app using Docker and Google Kubernetes to automatically scale and balance loads.

## Challenges we ran into

A major challenge was collaborating effectively throughout the hackathon. A lot of the bugs we faced were solved through discussions. We realized communication was key for us to succeed in building our project under a time constraints. We ran into performance issues while syncing data between two clients where we were sending too much data or too many broadcast messages at the same time. We optimized the process significantly for smooth real-time interactions.

## What's next for Study Buddy

While we were working on this project, we came across several ideas that this could be a part of.
Our next step is to have each page categorized as an individual room where users can visit.
Adding more relevant tools, more tools, widgets, and expand on other work fields to increase our User demographic.
Include interface customizing options to allow User’s personalization of their rooms.

Try it live here: <http://35.203.169.42/>

Our hopeful product in the future: <https://www.figma.com/proto/zmYk6ah0dJK7yJmYZ5SZpm/nwHacks_2021?node-id=92%3A132&scaling=scale-down>

Thanks for checking us out!