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Zynla

Quencing Thirsty Minds

Zynla is a place where you can find the Webs best answers from friends, experts, and communities all within the topics you love.

Background

Based on research, one primary design problem of search engines is its solitary nature. Searches take the form of an isolated interaction among the user and the search engine. Due to this drawback, search engines overlook the experience of users, which is useful for offering a more accurate result list in comparison to the others with similar preferences. The second inherent problem is one-size-fits-all, which means that irrespective of having different preferences, several users get the same results when they use the same query.

Zynla is a first of its kind collaborative platform that you can ask, search, and answer as a team

Objective

To create a collaborative platform that gets users the most relevant answers they ask for.

Goal

  • Minimize search time to find relevant answers
  • Easily find relevant answers with zero or minimal search expertise
  • Take advantage of search preferences of domain experts
  • Take advantage of diverse experience and expertise levels of community members on a subject matter
  • Take advantage of similarity and repetition of queries of search communities as a source of recommendations
  • Take advantage of social networking to

Use Cases

  • Health/medicine: We needed to find information about iron deficiency and hypokalemia
  • Academic projects: We are looking for reference footage and images for a school project
  • Travel: We are planning a trip to Alaska and all the details that go into it for a group of 10 of us
  • Shopping: We are looking for a used car
  • Entertainment: We are searching for music on YouTube and lyrics
  • Home/family: We are searching for a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor (genealogy)
  • Finance: We are researching different kinds of e-portfolios
  • Hotels/Restaurants: We are searching for local hotels and restaurants
  • Social events: We are planning a wedding
  • Technology: We are looking for printer parts for our business operation

Architecture

WIP

Supports

  • Webpack
  • Material UI
  • Hot Module replacement
  • React Hotloading (persists state)
  • Recommended folder structure for a react.js webapp project

How to start running

Run these commands

To install the required dependencies

$ npm install

To build the app

$ npm run wpbuild

To run the app

$ npm start