Cedric Hom

This project was inspired by the HBO sitcom Silicon Valley where a character created an app that identified if a photo of food was either a hot dog, or...not a hot dog. Read the backstory from Engadget here (there is strong language if you watch the YouTube video). I used the Clarifai Predict API with their food recognition model to create a basic identifier for hot dogs. A user is able to register, sign in, and submit an image URL to determine if there were hot dogs in the photo. The app will also log the number of entries you've submitted, and how many of them were actually hot dogs.

Technologies used: JavaScript, React, Node.js, Express, bcrypt.js, Knex.js, PostgreSQL, Clarifai API.

Click below to test it out! The back end is hosted for free on Heroku, so please give it a minute in case the app is sleeping. The passwords are encrypted with bcrypt, but please don't use a real email/password combination.

You may use the following login to test: demo@demo/demo

Not Hot Dog

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This project was the focus of the second half of my internship at User Interface Engineering (UIE). I took ownership of an existing, unfinished intern project that fit a company need to help the CEO both market his speaking engagements, as well as provide further engagement to the audience after the event. These eight microsites were deployed on WordPress and shared on Jared's Twitter account, reaching over 100k followers.

Click the GitHub repo below for more details on the development process and documentation, or click to view a live link on the Beyond the UX Tipping Point talk. Technologies used: HTML, CSS, Flexbox, WordPress, GitHub

Client GitHub repo

Beyond the UX Tipping Point

I consulted a local stakeholder in the Pokemon Go community about creating an app that would make their lives easier. Using React and Ruby on Rails, I developed an app that allowed an authenticated user to create a raid entry and view all raid entries created by other users. I would love to continue working on this app and adding a means for users to sort raids by time, view raids per boss, and even display their own photos to confirm their time.

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Team Instinct Boston Raid Leaderboard

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This project represents my first foray into web development. I developed a single page application that allows an authenticated user to play Tic-Tac-Toe. The game logic was created with JavaScript, and the game board was created with Bootstrap. jQuery was used to communicate with an API that was provided to us. Some of the features I would like to add in the future are a method for recordkeeping and multi-player functionality.

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Tic-Tac-Toe

Client GitHub repo