runnerspace

Introducing Runnerspace - a retro, UTSA-themed MySpace clone developed as part of the 'Retro' challenge during RowdyHacks 2022. This project was completed in under 36 hours and has since been further enhanced to serve as a portfolio project, now hosted on Railway.

Explore Runnerspace by clicking here.

About

Our team created a MySpace-inspired platform for the UTSA student community during RowdyHacks 2022. Drawing inspiration from the popular social media services of its era, we developed the application in just under 24 hours and presented a fully-functional demo for judging at the event.

Despite starting almost 5 hours into the hackathon, we were able to deliver a polished product that captured the retro essence of MySpace.

Screenshots

Features

• Accounts
  • Signup
  • Login/Logout + Remember Me
  • Administrative Access
  • Profile Editing
  • Profile Viewing
  • Online and Offline account flags
• Posts
  • Post Creation
    • Comment posting
  • Post Feed + Comment Stats
  • AJAX Post Liking System
• Appearance
  • Customized to look like MySpace; UTSA themed
  • CSS written to be usable on most laptops/desktops
  • MySpace-like Theme
    • Image used, although text-based logo fallback available
• Misc
  • Easy install & setup with pipenv
  • Hosted on Railway!
  • Profanity filtering
  • Human + Computer Readable Timestamps
    • "3 minutes ago" and such...
  • Global Header & Footer
  • License Page
  • About Page
  • UTC Timestamped Page Rendering

Tech Stack

• Flask
  • Jinja Templating
  • SQLAlchemy + SQLite
• Sass
• Font Awesome Icons
• Railway
• Other
  • Humanize
  • Faker
  • better-profanity

Development Setup

Developed on Python 3.8.0 - thus we recommend this version specifically.

pip install pipenv
pipenv install
flask run