Inspiration
Our personal experiences inspired us to create this app. We were brainstorming problems, and Vismay said "wait, let me log in to Instagram. Maybe he didn't send me the message here". We realized a problem nobody has solved: the overwhelming abundance of social media apps.
What it does
It cleanly unifies the user experience from multiple different networking / news apps, integrating them into, as the name suggests, one chrome tab that puts the reader's eyes to rest.
How we built it
We built it off a chrome extension, using a HTML / CSS / JS frontend, which connected to a custom-made Flask server built to scrape news websites (the ones we used were NewsAPI, The New York Times, GitHub, Hacker News, Alpha Vantage for stocks, and also finnhub API for stocks as well.
Challenges we ran into
We had tons of issues connecting the frontend to the backend. Originally, we wanted to put the Flask server in the same app as the chrome extension, but we were unable to resolve that issue. So we switched to making a custom Flask API that we could put requests to. We also had a huge error with stocks that took 4 hours to fix, it was a rare use case that there weren't very many helpful guides to use for.
By Aayush Palai, Tanish Nali, and Vismay Bhargav
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