Getting Over with Mid-Way Hackathon
It was the last day of the hackathon and just like every hackathon I have ever participated, there was a lot more work to do that there was time for. The video calling with WebRTC was working but it was flaky.
When a user joins for the first time on the video call, it is not able to connect to anyone. The user needed to join from another tab to get connected. We blamed the servers we were using for this behavior, but we don’t know the exact reason for that.
Nonetheless, we got everything together. My teammates developed and integrated the frontend after which the project looked anything but broken. It felt alive and very usable.
We went to the last minute to record our demo video. It was a literal race against time and the panic attack kicked in. Almost all of us were short of breath. Just five minutes before the deadline for the hackathon, we submitted our submission for the hackathon. The panic attack withdrew with an adrenaline rush.
The Mid-Way Hackathon has been a rollercoaster ride. We faced dead ends but we turned around and started over.
If you are still reading this, consider checking out the Devpost submission for the hackathon or the code of the project on GitHub. You never know, there can always be an opportunity to learn and I would very m uch like to learn from you.
In other news
Released openwisp-notifications 0.3.0 and created a lot of mess. I bumped the version from 0.2.2 to 0.3.0 but did not update the commit message. To make things worse, I added the git tag to the wrong commit. I had to force push to the master branch a couple of times which is not good.