The problem Hashtag solves

One of the earliest iterations of knowledge sharing took form of caved drawings in 15,000 BC . Concept of sharing ideas and arts have existed since ancient time. In ancient Greece: philosophers held open ideological debates in senates and amphitheaters. Ancient China and India held events for idea discussions in courts too. This can be considered the earliest form of content sharing.
The recognizable social media site, Six Degrees was created in 1997.It enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users. After,1999 the blogging sites became popular creating social media sensation. In 2006, with YouTube and Twitter becoming popular the new era of social media networking started. The social networking industry boomed with new additions like Facebook, Pinterest etc. Nowadays the social media sites like Instagram and Twitter are on the top of the game which enables posting of videos, photos, comments etc. along with communication services.
But even though these social networking sites have developed over the course of time increasing the reach of human speech and thoughts, it isn’t without its own set of problems. In recent years these sites have become platform for unhealthy tussle between people, spreading propaganda, inciting masses with hate speech and misinformation. Though the technology behind the industry is well developed but the major drawback of the existing work lies in the fact:” The reach of content in the existing sites are affected by in life media presence of the account holder creating the content rather than quality of content.”. Moreover, existing algorithm shows trending content to user rather than what user wants at that instance. With this project we are trying to give users a stock minimalistic social media experience. We aim to bring out the unappreciated beautiful content into the limelight often untouched due to terrible algorithms.

Challenges I ran into

Even Though we have achieved our main objectives our project does have some limitations and room for improvement. First of such limitation being the local hosted database rather than a cloud based database. Other limitations of our project include no filtration algorithm for comment and content posting which might be misused and lack of a well-developed recommendation algorithm.