Sears Retail Hackathon Log revolutiono...
Details of the whole thought process when I was hacking at the Sears Hackathon. For every one-two hours, I will make a summary of what the process is, and what my decision will be. Enjoy!
Product
http://jabsquared.github.io/sears-hack
Team
Brainstorms
- Up-sale per support
- Upgrade tracker, new product
- webRTC for appliance, support and retails
- Social network between client and technicians
Hack
- In charge of webRTC module and its integration on Cordova/Ionic.
- After a brief chat with Apptentive, seems like it does not support video.
- Defined two route: direct camera or webRTC. Will experiment on the first route due to prior webRTC experience. Hack == Learn.
2PM
|---> Need to implement streaming service.
\---> Doc was scarce
\---> Drop.
4PM
|---> Easy to plug into Ionic
\---> Still need to implement streaming service
\---> Drop.
6PM
|---> Worked
\---> Slow
\---> Streaming is complicated to configure
\---> Drop.
8PM
- Walk
9PM
- Decision: full force with webRTC
- SimpleRTC
|---> Easy Doc
\---> Success with browser-to-browser
\---> Needed Chrome power (Using its webRTC component)
|---> Using Crosswalk
|---> For a Hackathon?
/---> Decided to run `ionic address` and expose the app. The demo will be run on mobile's browser.
|---> Using Chrome on android, webRTC worked.
\---> Issue: Switching between camera
\---> Device list got
/---> Device does not apply on device?
/---> Tried the desparate approach of using directID
\---> Worked somehow, but the startup is slow.
\---> Merge back to master
6AM
- Walk
8AM
- Help teammates with front-end
|---> Added responsive to some elements.
\---> Use `vw` and `vh`
|---> Added standard usage of ionic classes on all pages
9AM
- Merge projects and publish final build
- Prepare the pitch with eagle
12PM
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