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chatIt

Inspiration

Encourage people to share their real experience with their families and friends, introduce a real experience for people and inpire people to travel as much as possible

What it does

Chatlt is a self-building itinerary social site. We bring passionate travelers who want to share their stories on this platform and allows others to make use of their Itineraries.

How we built it

We used Angular 2, NodeJS, API.AI, Twillo, NeDB, Camo, Express, Swagger, AWS.

Challenges we ran into

Training the chatbot through its machine learning, integrating a webhook for chatbot to retrieve data from our server. Learning and using Angular 2 Framework with large JSON requirements for itineraries.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting more familiar with today's bleeding edge technologies, completing a functional chatbot.

What we learned

Working with front/backend on seperate teams, seperate servers. Launching cloud instances, designing API endpoints. Using machine learning API's.

What's next for chatIt

Add more functionality such as ratings, sharing, sending messages to each other