This app was built inbetween assisting the hackathon participants with their projects, all in all it was approximately 2hrs of work.
Secret santa is among the most fun end of year activities that many groups of individuals participate in. This app provides a quick and easy way to set up a secret santa and have it be anonomyous and fair for everyone.
- Friends list functionality
- Create a new secret santa event + Add friends to it
- Have a unique block list per person (to prevent couples from purchasing from one another)
- randomly assign purchasee
- view all upcoming events
- allow users to drop from an event and handle the "who's buying for who" update
- Proper login functionality
- e-mail notifications + updates
- Duplicate existing event from previous year (same people, same block list, new event)
- Broadcast events to friends
This app was deployed on the free tier of Render as it works well for Ruby on rails applications.
link: https://hackathon-starter-iqt1.onrender.com
note: The instance will take 1-2 minutes to spin up, use "Lucy" to log in