Hussl.

Hussl is a dedicated social platform for entrepreneurial minds to connect and collaborate on problem solving.

Objective: To solve the problem of people who find it difficult to find like-minded people to connect with and to brainstorm regularly with.

View this project live at https://www.hussl.co

Process - Agile

• Started by building MVP then added additional features and iterated along the way

• Draw schema with n:n relationships and polymorphic tables

• Use of command line to create rails app

• MVC framework (db -> model -> routes -> controller -> view)

• Tested on rails s & rails c

• Implemented UI using HTML, SCSS, aos, Bootstrap following Figma designs

System dependencies

• Ruby 2.6.6

• Rails 6.0.3.2

• yarn

• npm

• RubyGems (devise, autoprefixer, font-awesome, simple_form etc)

• Used rails helpers (link_to, simple_form_for)

• ActionCable & Redis

Database

• postgreSQL & Active Record Storage

• Cloudinary for photo cloud storage

Deployment

• Heroku

Features

• Browsing features for problems, solutions and pitches

• PWA structure

• AJAX for "like" and "collaborate" buttons

• Action Cable for comments, notifications, collaboration and chat features

• Devise gem for user registration and sessions

• Collaboration feature (accept/reject collaboration requests)

• Capability to embed links

• Bookmarks feature for users to save posts to ponder later on

• Leaderboard feature for gamification