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 Railway. 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 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