Senior Solo Projects

After completing the 6-weeks junior module, the first test for our senior students is to work on a solo project. This project is always their own idea, the focus is on scoping it well to optimize for their own learning objectives, and to summarise everything they’ve previously learnt by applying on a real product. We kindly ask the reader to keep in mind, that all the below projects were done in one week by a single person, and we hope the triggered reaction will be an awe.

Cryptocurrency wallet on your mobile

Riding the wave of buzzwords, Rainier created Blocklet, a cryptocurrency wallet for iPhone owners. Blocklet is full of functionalities. Users can keep track of their balances (currently Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin), transfer coin via QR code, see recent transactions, exchange information for the provided currencies with market graph information for popular currencies. It also features a currency calculator and latest cryptocurrency news. Rainier’s main objective was to work with cryptos and to learn React Native for mobile apps, and we think he nailed both.

Time is money

Hannah’s project allows us to trade skills but instead of payment involved, users trade their time. She built the application on blockchain and with a friendly, intuitive interface in our browser. Watch her explain it.

Interactive chess

This very unusual name for a chess app came from the personal story of Karsten’s journey from getting lost in the sea of his own interests and then shifting from his original idea to create an app for his big passion, chess. Sometimes students can get sidetracked, but Karsten managed to find new technologies he could learn and implement in his solo project — even with the lost time. His chess game can be run in any browser, and we can challenge a random player real time.

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Fly with us — Anywhere

Coming from a UX designer background, we couldn’t expect anything more than a stunningly beautiful front-end heavy application from Leonardo. He created Anywhere, a flight search application, where users can search for cheap random destinations from their origin city on a given date. While inputting those, Anywhere’s dreamy interface takes us through the clouds, and flies us to land good deals we can then continue booking on major travel sites. Ideal for spontaneous weekend escapes for the adventurous types. 10/10 would use it.

Monitor your representatives

Didn’t come as a surprise from our only Catalan student in the batch, Sergi created a web application for users to keep track and evaluate their politicians’ trustworthiness. Citizens need to be logged in, then they are able to add promises and evaluate how the politicians are doing on an intuitive interface.

Time travel is real!

Share links on Slack easier

This Chrome extension makes it easier to post links on our Slack channels without having to leave the browser (not to mention copy-pasting). Simple and great, kudos to Andrea, we would totally use this!

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