Matthew Nguyen

Capstone reflection

Goals — Team: Ship a usable event-based social app with core flows. More broadly, we wanted to solve the problem of declining socialization among Gen Z, and we decided to start with UW students to keep our scope realistic.

Individual: Personally I wanted to develop and release a real application on the App Store before graduating college. I wanted to learn about the process and everything involved with creating an app.

Process — Team : We ran weekly sprints to suggest new features and update each other on where we were progressing on this project.

Individual I led the front-end design and created the overall design style and principles. I also helped to set up the back end.

Takeaways — Team : What worked well was our weekly sprints and our ability to iterate on the product quickly. What did not work well was our development process and the fragmentation between git branches.

Individual : I learned how to use React Native and Supabase to build a real application. I also learned how to design a mobile application, which is different from my web experience.

Next steps — Shipping improvements, tests, performance, TestFlight limited beta testing, App Store release