sentivents

This is a React Native mobile application with a Python backend.

This project was created for the Boilermake VIII hackathon with a group of three others. We wanted to utilize MIT's DeepMoji, an interesting machine learning model that recognizes emotion in text by using emojis.

A slight problem was that this model only had Python implementations, so including it directly in the app was infeasable. We ended up deciding separating this project into two parts, the app, and a simple HTTP server to service the requests.

Given my expertise in Python, I was given the task of implementing the backend. One problem I ended up encountering was that the provided DeepMoji implementation used an old version of PyTorch, causing it to break completely. It took a surprising amount of time to find references online and isolate the problem.

After I fixed that, I set up a simple API with Python's http.server on a Google Cloud Compute instance. This allowed the rest of the team to start implementing functionality in the app.