Sinatra Projects

##BulldogTaxi 'Patrick Casey and Ben Burke'

Bulldog Taxi is a service for Yale Students to arrange to split taxis to and from Bradley International Airport. It started as a small project during tech bootcamp, but we've since improved it. Find the complete, final version of the app here:

• Heroku

##NoXploder Casey Watts, Charlie Proctor, Jason Kim, Marcus Russi

(This is just an example, unfortunately this app doesn't exist)

NoXploder app is to make the world not explode. We use Ruby on Rails to store information on potential explosion points, and we use the Google Earth Patcher API to prevent destruction.

• GitHub Repository
• Heroku Instance

##Madlips Sahil Gupta + Ben Burke

Madlips enables you, the user, to fill in words in famous passages from film and literature. Once you create your hilarious passage, we read it aloud in a funky accent.

• GitHub
• Heroku

##Recipes of Last Resort Caroline Posner

Recipes of Last Resort allows the user to input a mood and up to 3 ingredient to generate a recipe suggestion.

• GitHub Repository
• Heroku Instance

##Markov Proverbs Rachel Prince and Nikki Feldman

The Markov Proverbs app generates semi-random sentences that sound like real proverbs, though they are sometimes nonsensical and always hilarious.

• GitHub Repository
• Heroku Instance

##NameDeck Sonja Peterson and Viveca Morris

Learn names fast with customized flashcards.

• NameDeck GitHub
• NameDeck Heroku

"Always use the proper name for things, Harry. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself." - Albus Dumbledore

##The 'Janky' Yale Calendar Paul Styslinger + David Liu

This Yale Calendar allows students to quickly add any and all campus events they desire to one simple, easy-to-read website.

• GitHub
• Heroku

"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time." - Marilyn Monroe

##BottomsUp Amy Rockwood, E-lynn Yap, Aily Zhang

Ever wonder exactly how many bottles of drank you would need to throw a successful event? BottomsUp makes party-planning easy: select the occasion you need booze for, and we come up with drink recommendations and the exact servings you'll need. We do the math, you do the drinking.

• GitHub
• Link to Heroku

##Mama Home School Jenny Allen + Tim Follo + Joe Calamia

You want to take advantage of all those free courses available through sites like the Open Yale Courses, but you just don't have the follow-through. After you pick your courses of interest and your availability, Mama Home School plans your schedule and makes it available for download as an .ics file, ready for loading into your favorite electronic calendar. She also reminds/berates/motivates you with an email when it's time to get to class.

• GitHub
• Link to Heroku

##VacationPlanner Natalia Bueno + Taylor Stib

VacationApp, planning trips made easy. Creates a platform for groups to organize their ideas for their upcoming vacation. It makes it easy to collaborate and share tasks before a vacation trip.

• GitHub Repository
• Link to Heroku

##Micromanager Dana Chaykovsky and David McPeek

Micromanage your own life! Users create groups of friends and can send timed e-mails to members of that group. Moreover, these e-mails can be sent at routine times each day, even multiple times a day. Micromanager makes coordinating groups easier than ever!

• GitHub Repository
• Link to Heroku

##LazyTxtr Zach Young

LazyTxtr is a messaging app that allows user to scale repetitive messages to customizable groups.

• Github Repository
• Link to Heroku

##EnergizeYale 'Henok Addis + Phil Esterman'

EnergizeYale is a online platform that visualizes the energy usage of each of Yale's residential colleges in a clean, interactive and impactful fashion. The data was pulled from Yale Facilities and has been monthly adjusted to remove any abnormalities that could have been caused by weather or other unrelated events. The goal was to create a little competition between the colleges to help insentivize students to be more energy efficient in their day to day lives.

• Github Repository

##The Essay Extender Natalia Castillejo, Loide Marwanga

The Essay Extender is an app that helps you make your essay longer by replacing your words with longer, more complicated words, eliminating the need to increase margins, double-space and otherwise try to cheat your professors.

• GitHub Repository
• Heroku Instance

##Cock-A-Doodle-Snooze Matt Cohen, Andres Ornelas Vargas

The Cock-A-Doodle-Snooze app is an alarm clock that makes you answer SAT questions when you wake up and reacts to current weather forecasts.

• GitHub Repository
• Heroku Instance
• Presentation

##Dogenerator Aileen Huang + Jay Hou

Put in text. Hit submit. Much doge. Such parse. Wow.

• Github Repository
• [Heroku Instance] (http://dogegenerator.herokuapp.com)