CoolBox

Challenge we're going for: Best Use of Twilio API.

Inspiration

• We often find ourselves disagreeing with the music played on nights out and at parties
• SMS is very common (everyone with a mobile phone has access!)
• Spotify has a very neat API for easy parsing of search input
• It also has an incredibly large music library, so it was a no-brainer: Let the people decide!

How it works

• Back-end server written mainly using Sails, a Node framework.
• Front-end client written using jQuery, HTML and CSS.

Challenges we ran into

• Actively mapping out the control flow became slightly challenging at points

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• As well as the SMS interface, applications for multiple platforms were also written (Android, Pebble)
• Wrote all of the server-side logic from scratch as well as the websocket functionality for duplex communication with the client
• The UI was designed with Google's Material Design standards in mind

What we learned

• We learned that making the effort to avoid hardcoding to fix bugs is incredibly satisfying
• DOM manipulation is a lot more intuitive than was originally thought

What's next for CoolBox

• Expanding support for the Spotify Premium API
• Adding support for other useful and relevant websites' APIs (SoundCloud, etc)

Built With

• android
• css
• html
• javascript
• jquery
• node.js
• pebble
• sails.js
• twilio