The Microblogger Initiative (v1)

Microblogger is an Indian Microblogging service and a platform to share your opinions with the entire world! It aims to be a completely open source social media site hosted on Github. It aims to be a successful Indian Social Media and Microblogging platform like Twitter.

Click here to see the buildlog of Microblogger V1

Instructions

1. Run the server

   cd MicroBloggerCore
   virtualenv venv
   source venv/bin/activate
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   python main.py
   (Open new window) ngrok http localhost:3000

2. Paste the ngrok link in serverURL variable in microblogger/lib/Backend/datastore.dart
3. cd into the microblogge and use flutter run to run the mobile application

Features

1. Microblogs
2. Full Length Blog Articles
3. Polls
4. Carousels
5. Timelines
6. Links
7. User Accounts (Follow, Unfollow etc)
8. User Tagging
9. Hashtags (Basic)
10. Full length Videos
11. Youtube Snippets

TechStack

1. Flutter (Frontend & Mobile Application)
2. Python & Flask (Backend)
3. Cloudinary (File Hosting)
4. Flask-SQLAlchemy (Database)