Fun With Websockets!

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Goofy Little me is a multi-user website that allows users to socialize by drawing and messaging. Users draw their own unique, goofy-looking avatars and interests and they have an opportunity to view other avatars in a community gallery. Users can become friends, message, and draw each other gifts on this website. While words are a great way to communicate, drawing is the first step to expressing yourself and to get a better understanding of the personalities of users. Because in order to message, users have to draw their avatar first then explore drawn avatars and interests before making a decision to be friends. Why tell your interests when you can show them? Drawing is a great way to communicate without words and to show creativity, passion, and the fun side of people. By drawing interests and themselves, they have full creative freedom to be who they are and find kindred users.

I made Goofy Little Me by using Cursor then applying it to Render with a Mongo DB database to store user data. This project goal was to create a multi-user website of our choice with integrating a database being optional but recommended. I wanted to create a website where people can not only communicate by text, but mainly by drawing. Drawing has always been my passion and even though I am in art school studying the complexity of art, art is always the easiest way of communication. I was inspired by elementary school drawings and relationships where goofiness and authenticity is the best way to make friends. This is one of my favorite websites I have created as it is the most complex and enjoyable one. The most complicated part was adding an email verification code in case someone forgets a password. I thought it would be easy but I was gravely mistaken because I had to do dozens of steps to just link my email to my code. I would love to expand this more as I see this website as a demo.