runnerspace

A retro myspace clone for UTSA students.

About

Made during Rowdy Hacks 2022, this myspace look-a-like was quickly made with intentions of serving the UTSA student community. We took heavy inspiration from my-space and other social media services of it's era.

We made this app starting almost 5 hours after this 24-hour Hackathon started and in total I stayed up for around 36 hours straight to

Features

• Accounts
  • Signup
  • Login/Logout + Remember Me
  • Administrative Access
  • Profile Editing
  • Profile Viewing
  • Online and Offline account flags
• Posts
  • Post Creation
  • Post Feed + Comment Stats
• 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
  • 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
• Other
  • Humanize
  • Faker

Development Setup

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

pip install pipenv
pipenv install
flask run

Not production ready yet.