Join me as I document my journey building my latest project called Course Assist. A mobile app used to help students with school assignments.
This is a continuation of the previous blog which if you haven’t read please do check out. In the previous blog, I started the process of creating chat functionality from scratch a process that is kinda long and complicated🙄which is why I decided to split the blog into two parts with this being the second …
If you’ve been following this series you’re probably wondering why I’m rebuilding chat functionality into Course Assist. In the previous chat functionality blog I mentioned 3 ways of adding chat functionality to an app which is; 1. Building a chat system from scratch, 2. Using software as a service(saas) and 3. Using a 3rd party …
Initially, the feature I was supposed to work on was the earnings feature which involves a record of the amount of money an expert makes after each question they’ve answered but just when I was about to start working on it I found out I had already done it sometime last year.😁 That being said …
Chat functionality is something found in almost every type of application we see today. Be it a social media platform like Instagram, a freelance platform like Fiverr or even a video chat service like Zoom or Google meet, chat functionality is something found in all of them. Chat functionality essentially enables users of the app …
From the time Course Assist was just an idea in my head early last year I’ve known adding web sockets to the project will be an absolute headache. That was until a few weeks ago when I had a light bulb moment 💡and realised I could easily set it up without finishing every painkiller in …
Course Assist as a whole consists of 3 parts, 2 mobile apps (a user app and an expert app kind of the way uber has a main app and a driver) and a backend which is all the server-side code and database. It’s been about 3 months since I last ran any of these apps …
Course Assist as stated in the series description is a project that helps students with assignments. Got the idea a little over a year ago now and long story short it took me almost the whole year last year to nearly complete it due to my terrible planning skills🥲 and the fact that I didn’t …
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