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Creating Total Slice: My Personal Takeaways

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Creating Total Slice: My Personal Takeaways

Presenting my personal reflections on creating Total Slice, a personal finance tool that uses visualizations to help people gain a better grasp of their finances.

ML for the first time, to Google Teachable Machine making my project LearnLily special.

Speech Detector and Analyser The ML model that I trained and used in LearnLily can detect postures while speaking (namely, good eye contact, bad eye contact, fidgeting, slump), detect fumbles and backgrond noise while talking and also detect whether you are giving your speech with or without any aids (phone,

Compostify - Because What You Have Isn't Waste

Compostify - Because What You Have Isn't Waste

A third of the world's food supply ends up being wasted - and 30% to 50% of this waste comes from our own kitchens. Landfills teeming with abandoned fruit, grass clippings, and vegetables are a common sight in today’s world. A solution? Composting. It’s the process of using

FlixFam - For The Cinephiles

FlixFam - For The Cinephiles

I had the idea for FlixFam in my head for a while now. I took inspiration from GoodReads, which is a platform where you can keep track of books you've read, share them with friends, and also discover new titles. I wanted to create something similar but for movies and

Meet Intera...

Hello, my name is Reeva Khokhar and for the Summer 2021 Cohort I worked with Cyra Alesha to create a web application called Intera. What was the inspiration behind Intera? Due to the Coronavirus Pandemic the job market had become very competitive which made it necessary for all candidates applying

Editing Account Information

Editing Account Information

Qoom's new database update comes with full tutorials and code snippets that open up way more awesome possibilities for coding projects! Perhaps an "editing information" section? That's exactly what we did with our project, using Qoom's user authentication database system. The HTML First, we formatted the information using HTML and

What is Pedal Mates?

What is Pedal Mates?

There are times when you want to bike around in your city but don’t have someone you can go with. However, staying fit is super essential especially considering the sedentary lifestyle we have all been living. In such times, we thought of creating a web app that would help

Challenges and everything I achieved by working more on Diarywise

Challenges and everything I achieved by working more on Diarywise

In this cohort, I continued working on Diarywise again. Since I worked on the website again, I got to improve many things on the website. Such as the user interface, adding new features, adding more themes, and making everything look more sophisticated and beautiful. When you keep working on a

Using Qoom's Database for Mood-E

Using Qoom's Database for Mood-E

Introduction: Welcome back! We’re Maya and Gavneet AKA Mayneet. We first joined the Qoom Creator Club back in April of 2021 for the spring cohort. We had such a great time creating our first project, we came back for the summer cohort to create our second project together, Mood-E.

MaskUp 😷

What this project does 🌎 MaskUp is a web app that features both live and group mask detection, along with statistics describing daily detection rate. Here are some of MaskUp's features: Live Mask Detection MaskUp features live mask detection powered by Google's Teachable Machine. This ML model was trained with 938

The Creation of Qoomboard

The Creation of Qoomboard

The journey of creating QoomBoard, as being a part of the Qoom Creator Group with Leyna and Liya. ______________________ The time I had joined a new group with entirely new people I’ve never met before. We had no high expectations for each other except for sharing one goal: finishing the

Space Arcade: a collection of online games

Space Arcade: a collection of online games

Introduction: Hello! Our names are John and Evan and we have now completed two sessions of the Qoom creator group. During our first session in the winter we created our first game 'Space Race' and an account system using Javascript, HTML5 and CSS. During our second session this summer we

Project Design Process with Qoom

Project Design Process with Qoom

Getting Started: Seeking a problem- Finding a problem is similar to what songwriters feel when writing a song. Songwriters tend to write what they're passionate about either from personal experience or from what they think others' perspective is. The same goes for finding a problem, think about anything you have

3 Simple Steps to Use Speech-to-Text in your Website!

3 Simple Steps to Use Speech-to-Text in your Website!

Do you ever want to implement speech to text? This cool feature holds an unlimited possibility. From voice commands, quick writing tool, to helping people who struggle with writing. You can implement this feature in your next Qoom website with just 3 simple steps! Ready? Here we go:

About the Qoom Ambassador Program

About the Qoom Ambassador Program

Qoom's first ever Ambassador Program is launching from August 2021! The application deadline is coming up shortly — and we want you to apply. The Ambassador Program's lead organizer, Shannon Yeow, is a senior in high school from California. She was first involved with Qoom when mentored by the co-founders for

Want to Build a Real Login System?

Want to Build a Real Login System?

Qoom is a simple, easy, and creator-friendly way to build web projects! When you use Qoom to code websites for personal portfolios, hackathon submissions, and more, we know there are some features that you may not be 100% confident coding on your own. Today, we will introduce you to one

Spring 2021 Creator Group

Spring 2021 Creator Group

On Wednesday, June 30th, the Spring 2021 Creator Group Showcase took place, where Creators shared projects they had been working on for the past 12 weeks! With code snippets, demos, and challenges Creators overcame, guests and fellow peers got to see what went inside Qoom's Creator Group program. Not only

Interview with Rebecca Wang, Executive Director at Hydrangea Hacks

Interview with Rebecca Wang, Executive Director at Hydrangea Hacks

Meet Rebecca👋, a Qoom Creator and Executive Director at Hydrangea Hacks! Hydrangea Hacks was a weekend-long virtual hackathon from June 18th to 20th, 2021, for students of marginalized genders to promote inclusivity and diversity in the STEM community. With eight different prize tracks and 84 submitted projects, Hydrangea Hacks was

Teachable Machine

Teachable Machine

The buzzword machine learning depicts mystery yet intrigue to most. To those who dare to venture into the unknown, it takes weeks or even months to train an accurate model with large amounts of data to solve the "simplest" question (e.g., what a cat looks like?). However, with Google's

Quick and Simple: How to Create and Upload a Unity Project to Qoom

Quick and Simple: How to Create and Upload a Unity Project to Qoom

Ever wished you could make your own games? Or wished you could play your favorite games from the convenience of an Internet browser? I sure have! If only there was a really easy way of creating games and then uploading them to the internet for everyone to play…. Good news--

The Process: How We Learned to Drag and Drop

The Process: How We Learned to Drag and Drop

This is not going to be another Drag and Drop tutorial, because there are already good ones like DigitalOcean's. Rather, we will be focusing on how we problem-solved and learned to code a new feature as a Qoom Creator. The Journey 1. The Problem 2. The Guidance 3. The Code

What is Diarywise?

What is Diarywise?

Here you can read about my journey in creating Diarywise, a site for writing out diary entries, as well as the challenges that I ran into and how I solved them.

AREA: a closer look into the process of our very first project

AREA: a closer look into the process of our very first project

Introduction: Hello! Our name’s are Maya and Gavneet, AKA Mayneet. We joined the Qoom Creator group for the spring cohort, in April of 2021. We both had an interest in coding, but were coming into this cohort with limited experience. Previously we learnt the basics of languages like Python

How We Created Cranial Check Using the Qoom Database

How We Created Cranial Check Using the Qoom Database

Written by Alyzee Sosa and Carissa Tang, July 01 2021 Handling both the frontend and backend of a project at once can be tough. This was especially true for our Spring 2021 Creator Group project, Cranial Check, which was frontend-heavy. However, we were stoked to discover how much we could