hello world.

edit: the toy is up on sage! you can access it from sage's project page.

https://youtube.com/@kan-kode/live

day 1: excalidraw and wireframe for the website
day 2: setting up basic flask app succesfully
day 3: try email verification, smtp, flask-wtf and simplify login process, taking less fields initially
day 4: more trial on flask-wtf unsuccesful, more work.... add an api route which gives user data.
day 5: ditch flask-wtf for now, basic form auth works, setup password hashing for storage. starting to build signup page and aiming for a little homepage stuff [also add new table for ip banning.]
day 6: host api on pythonanywhere and it worked! i can fetch and post data remotely. also worked on sign in page and login mechanism
day 7: login works, but leaks passwords for free. Also attended lecture 1, made the idea poster, posted on twt and linkedin [twt]
day 8: play minecraft in agony, start working on different forms of auth
day 9: finally got auth working, JWT is awesome. set it up in like 10 minutes.... now we up! >:-)))
day 10: hosted the dev build and shared it to my friends and people for testing! it works awesome! also, setting up admin-only applications and features
day 11: add admin only web app for ip ban moderation and change the mechanism for reducing spam, hard ip ban has been sunset :)
day 12: add unique username generator [anonymous] with amazing sorcery, and use flask-migrate from now. Also work on homepage search algo!.... wait I also streamed my code session for the first time today!
day 13: lazy day, played Minecraft and made the search api to be restricted to users who are signed up.
day 14: in the search api route, now ive allow only users with complete profile to use the search functionality.
day 15: collaborated with a ui/ux designer from nigeria to work on proximil! im very excited
day 16: released the second version of the dev build with a lot of new features and with more security. also attended the lab 2.
day 17: trying to brainstorm ideas for newer features. TBD
day 18: didnt specifically work on code today
day 19: started working on 'letterbox functionality' to be revealed soon ;)
day 20: college, work, home, code... nothing much
day 21: f-ed up the whole codebase :)
day 22: fix stuff and got to work
day 23: chat feature works now!!! finally implemented it nicely. also edited a bit of css too
day 24: first launch!! day 25: toy review, i f-ed myself, farza roasted me :(((

I got the inspiration for this idea while walking down my block, and I saw someone with a bag, a laptop exiting his car, my first thought was that "is he into tech? can i talk to him? should i 'connect' with him?" but i walked away...
Then this idea striked my mind, that why not develop a hyperlocal networking website??
Then after the regular anxious research and surfing on internet thinking 'does this already exist'? I saw that such a simple idea doesn't exist yet?
I decided to pick it up, and coincidentally i got selected for buildspace, and i chose this ideas as my project for the next 6 weeks