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Feature Phone Emulator with SMS app - DigitalOcean Hackathon

What I built

Category Submission:

Random Roulette

App Link

https://fpe-sms-58nib.ondigitalocean.app/

Screenshots

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Description

This is a feature phone emulator with an SMS app.
As such, the screen is not (clickable/touchable).
The Left & Right selection buttons have to be used to
select the respective actions in the screen footer.

While writing a new message, click you can switch from uppercase/lowercase/number mode using the * key.

Example: To type "Hello"

  1. Press * once to switch to uppercase
  2. Press 4 twice
  3. Press * twice to switch to lowercase
  4. Press 3 twice
  5. Press 5 thrice.
  6. Wait ~ 1.5 seconds
  7. Press 5 thrice.
  8. Press 6 thrice.

Link to Source Code

https://github.com/CitronBrick/fpe-sms

Permissive License

MIT License

Background

(What made you decide to build this particular app? What inspired you?)
I've been a feature phone user for a long time. It was fun to develop buttons that insert a different letter based on the frequency of clicks.

How I built it

Used Angular for this project, after a long time.
This is my first time using DigitalOcean. Deployed it as a
stati site.

(How did you utilize DigitalOcean’s App Platform? Did you learn something new along the way? Pick up a new skill?)

Additional Resources/Info

This video was quite useful to deploy the angular app.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW5HYRz6kPk

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