runnerspace

Runnerspace is a retro, UTSA-themed MySpace clone made in less than 36 hours during RowdyHacks 2022. It was intended for the 'Retro' challenge and has been further overhauled afterwards to become a portfolio project, hosted on Heroku. Check it out by clicking on the banner or here.

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 its era.

We made this app starting almost 5 hours after this 24-hour Hackathon started and were able to successfully present a finished demo for judging at RowdyHacks 2022.

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 Heroku!
- 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
Heroku
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

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