Hack, share, learn: 40+ developer projects from the Chingu cohorts
Dip your hand into Francesco Agnoletto’s wine cabinet for a nice vintage & sit back to enjoy this little slice of global gourmet collaboration!
What is this wild place?
I can remember how crazy it felt to be a part of an international team of learners trying to build a full-stack app for the first time. I told my grandma I was working on a project with someone from Algeria, England, USA, and Croatia.
She didn’t believe me.
We just launched Voyage-3 with 100 remote developer teams made up of people from 75 different countries.
Her reaction now:
What is Chingu?
Chingu is a remote dev collaboration community that provides developers and aspiring developers (increasingly data scientists & designers as well) access to remote project experiences and level-up opportunities.
Here is what we do: put motivated people with similar goals together in an environment that gives them the opportunity to level-up in a way they couldn’t otherwise. Our focus is on accelerated learning and creating impact.
Here is how Veronica Mihai put it once:
“For me the Chingu cohorts is finding your tribe of like-minded people. Finding someone to share your projects with, your work with (to get support/feedback)…and maybe even your dreams. And the experience of working with people in remote projects.”
p.s.
— Congratulations Musaab Bakheit, @veloblank, @reece, @mila and @abhi_hk95 who all got developer jobs this week!
We like collaboration that lights up like a Star Wars battle scene
Each square below is a github code repo visualization that represents the collaboration of a Chingu Voyage team.
Note:It takes awhile to put these visualizations together for one project so I just did 15 and repeated them. We’ve facilitated 100s of projects like this though, so you can imagine what that’d look like all together ;p
…Why do I get a feeling what we’re doing isn’t exactly normal? 😆
A few Voyage-2 stats:
- Over 120k messages were exchanged in V2
- 500,000+ lines of code was generated (that’s with the dependencies taken out).
- There was an average of 4.2 commits made per hour for 1008 hours.
- How is that possible you may ask? Well…the Voyage-2 members came from 56 different countries. ;p
Without further ado, the projects. Let’s dive in, shall we?
We build to learn.
Idea Nebulae — Where ideas are born (so we can form teams to build them 🚀)
Stack: VueJS, Webpack, Mongo, NodeJS/Express
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: Colombia, India, USA (St. Louis & Portland)
Team: Jim Medlock, Parminder Singh, Andrés Pérez, Sarah Schneider
About: IdeaNebulae makes it easy for Web Devs to propose ideas and get feedback from their peers. At Chingu we launch a lot of team projects, and building a tool that allows ideas to flow in for people to build is hugely important, especially as we ramp up the number of teams each session. 💯
Quotable: “We intentionally chose to challenge and to stretch ourselves beyond our comfort zones. Although challenging and sometimes stressful we learn far more than we would have had we chosen to stick with another stack. This team was great to work with and due to the scope of this project we’re continuing it in Voyage 3.”
Github repo
I7SAN — a volunteering social network for the Middle East (we’ll never be faulted for a lack of ambition will we? 😉)
Stack: React / Redux along with Semantic UI for styling & Passport JWT for logging in. The backend API is in Node JS, Express, MongoDB / Mongoose.
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: United Arab Emirates (Dubai), Portland
Team: Ahmad, Jay
About: I7SAN is an existing organization with 700,000 followers on Facebook. The potential for impact this project has is truly inspiring.
Github repo
Tickybot — Let your team manage their support tickets 100% inside Slack
Stack: Node.js, Webpack, React, Firebase
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: Sweden, Serbia, Croatia
Team: @osycon, @thinktwice13, @miljan-fsd, @Zsolti
About: This is exactly what we want to see more of in the cohorts — it combines striving for impact with a great idea and design. This is a bot that can provide value not only to Chingu (we’ll eventually be using this ticketing system for the Voyages) but also could be used by other organizations using Slack.
Github repo
Airbnb reverse-engineered—
Stack: Create-React-App, Node.js, Express
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn
Countries: UK, France/Japan, Poland
Team: osirisseye, Paulina, yuka, redrocket
About: This team showed perseverance and resiliency in a wonderful way. Their Project Manager got a job early-on and they successfully transitioned to having another member step up into the position (who promptly got a job just as the project finished).
Github repo
TurtleTab — a gorgeous next-tab chrome extension built by a coalition of turtles! 🐢 🐢 🐢 🐢
Stack: React
Chingu project type: Tier-2🐢, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: united states, norway
Team: lilgangwolf, eureka, thorbw, milesj76
Articles: Eun’s article, lilgangwolf’s article
Github repo
Sona Sarovar Trust nonprofit project
Stack: MongoDB, Express, Mongoose, React, Redux, Webpack, Eslint
Chingu project type: nonprofit, build-for-impact
Countries: India, the world
Team: Yasser Hussain & some help from the Chingu-Central/Voyage community
Github repo
OSPC (Open Source Project Contributors) — Have you ever wanted to contribute to open-source but didn’t know where to get started?
Stack: MEAN
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: USA
Team: Jeremy Hurley, Ben Brooke, @josh5231
Github repo
Bookmark.it —
Stack:MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular 4 & Node)
Chingu project type: Tier-2 🐢, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: England, Israel & Poland
Team: Olly John, lydiavuj & Tomek Osuchowski (tomektomeknyc)
Github repo
Turtrello — this team reverse-engineered Trello!
Stack: React, Firebase
Chingu project type: Tier-2 🐢, build-to-learn
Countries: USA
Team: @pai, Colin King-Bailey Byun, @vannya(Van Tabbert)
Github repo
Wanderful — Discover new locations to visit.
Stack: MongoDB, Express, React, Nodejs
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: USA
Team:@dslemay, @Alex, @bernar83(Adrian Bernardo)
About: This full-stack application is an absolute treat, especially for vagabonds like myself who cannot help but press the “Generate Random Destination” 100 times.
Github repo
Stylesheet Library for Reddit
Stack:
Chingu project type: Tier-1🦉, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: USA
Team: James Kerrane, sriram22
Github repo
Donut.ai landing page
Stack: HTML, CSS, jQuery
Chingu project type: Tier-1 🦉, build-to-learn
Countries: Hungary, Serbia, Nigeria
Team: Metazor , csstefan, Tony
Github repo
DevTab — Momentum-style Chrome extension w/ extra features (Pomodoro + color picker)
Stack: jQuery, Gulp
Chingu project type: Tier-2🐢, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: Colombia, United States of America
Team: @ziggysauce, @jmbothe, @tyler
Github repo
Hip-D Lost & Found Pets — a nonprofit project for impact!
Stack: React, Redux, Firebase, and we’ve worked a lot with the Google Maps API
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn, build-for-impact, Nonprofit
Countries: USA
Team: mmadden, gmunker
Github repo
Jobbatical clone
Stack: Node, Express, Mongodb, Nunjucks, JQuery
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn
Countries: Indonesia, India
Team: @pankaja, @nemesis1311, @heinhoang
Github repo
Meet and Code
Stack: React, Redux, Firebase, Google Maps
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: Brazil, Canada, United States
Team: @freddydumont @Lsom11 @jp_lacy
Github repo
Newsbot
Stack: Node.js, Express.js, Slack API
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: Canada/USA
Team: @similedude, @mayerxc, @Daniel, @RLBrown
Github repo
Blueberry Dash — a scrumptious chrome extension
Stack: jQuery
Chingu project type: Tier-2 🐢, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: UK, USA, Canada
Team: @Misomighty @davidlarsketch @Reuben, 8thday
Github repo
Movie-bot — Movie and TV reviews using The Movie Database api
Stack: Javascript, Html, Css, Node, Express
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: usa
Team: nealthom, ermarie
Github repo
Timelapse — a momentum-style clone with some secret sauce!
Stack: jQuery, Gulp.js, Webpack, HTML5, CSS3/PostCSS
Chingu project type: Tier-2 🐢, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: Serbia, UK, Spain, Romania
Team: puritanic, san00, ncoder92, tudorflorea
Github repo
Chingu Hackathon — Hack, Share, Learn
Stack: Create React App, Express, NodeJS, MongoDB
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: United States
Team: ddmaness, asteed21, boydjenkins18
Github repo
Galapagos Dashboard
Stack: Vanilla JS, Jquery, Firebase
Chingu project type: Tier-2 🐢, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: US, Canada
Team: seth, js, cnash
Github repo
Jobbatical Clone — edward
Stack: MERN stack with Redux and Mongoose
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn
Countries: Australia and New Zealand
Team: ioan, edward-hong
Github repo
LearnMap
Stack: Meteor, React, MongoDB
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: US, Canada
Team: SteveGBanton, mellusbrandon, giveback007
Github repo
Rubic — Compare Github User Stats
Stack: Create-react-app, React-router, styled-components, Axios, Moment
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn, build-for-fun 🚀
Countries: USA
Team: sheafitzek
Github repo
Wandertab Chrome Extension Project
Stack: React, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, Heroku
Chingu project type: Tier-2 🐢, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: El Salvador, United States, Canada
Team: blarzHernandez, abuna
Github repo
Callie Landing Page 🦉
Stack: css, html
Chingu project type: Tier-1 🦉, build-to-learn
Countries: Romania, Russia
Team: @dianastanciu, @aseem,@serhii.css (Serhii Borovskyi)
Github repo
Momentum clone
Stack: Javascript,Jquery,HTML,CSS
Chingu project type: Tier-2 🐢, build-to-learn
Countries: USA
Team:@shilpiverma509
Github repo
Carl — an AI chatbot to help facilitate the Chingu Voyage cohorts
Stack: Dialogflow, cheekiness
Chingu project type: Chingu-X 🚀 🚀
Countries:
Team: Andrés Pérez
Jobbatical Clone
Stack: node.js
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn
Countries: United States
Team: jorlee92, brianmcoates, travisxx, jeffbernst
Github repo
VampsDream
Stack: Javascript
Chingu project type: Chingu-X, Automation
Countries: Colombia, USA
Team: Oxyrus, a homage to Vamp’s love of automation systems that free up resources for higher level priorities!
Github repo
Paypal for Slack landing page
Stack: html, css, bootstrap, node
Chingu project type: Tier-1 🦉, build-to-learn
Countries: USA
Team: irmattg
Github repo
Codejobs
Stack: Django
Chingu project type: organic, build-for-impact
Countries: Ghana
Team: Kenneth Amanfo Junior
Github repo
BirdNerd app — an app/community for bird watchers! 🐦
Stack: React, Nodejs
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: Northern Mariana Islands, India
Team: faizahmadfaiz, @mot_bullock
Github repo
Momentum clone extension
Stack: HTML, CSS, Vanilla JS, jQuery, Bootstrap
Chingu project type: Tier-2 🐢, build-to-learn
Countries: India
Team: Anshul, assem
Github repo
Jim’s Ale
Stack: Javascript
Chingu project type: Chingu-X, Autmation
Countries: Colombia, wherever Jim lays his hat
Team: Jim Medlock’s craft ale adventures, Oxyrus’ distaste for repetition
Github repo
Alexandria, a full-stack web-dev library of resources
Stack:
Chingu project type:
Countries:
Team: Reece, John Morel (@eliotn has joined in Voyge-3!)
Github repo
Co/ment 2.0 — now includes messaging!
Stack: MERN
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn, build-for-impact
Countries: USA
Team: @belcurv, @Dave, @rifkegribenes(Sarah Schneider)
Github repo
Chingu Forum (finished but on hold until some of the automation is implemented)
Chingu project type: Improve community
Countries: the World
Chingu Developer Network — aka a Moonshot generator for developers! 🚀🚀 🚀
Stack: React, Redux, Apollo, graphql, discord-google-hangouts-slack combo communication workflow out the wazoo!
Chingu project type: Chingu-X 🚀 🚀 🚀
Countries: Jordan, Colombia, USA
Team: Musaab Bakheit, Andrés Pérez, Vampiire
About: A good portion of this project is finished but we’ll keep it shrouded in a little mystery until all the puzzle pieces are in place that’ll allow it to unleash some gourmet value for developers!
Github repo
Chingu Wizard (formerly Autobot) — Standup functionality
Chingu project type: Chingu-x, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: Jordan, Sudan, USA, Colombia
Team: Chingu-X team — Vampiire (the architect), Musaab Bakheit, Andrés Pérez
Github repo
Chingu Wizard (formerly Autobot) — Acts & Milestones (continued updates)
Chingu project type: Chingu-x, build-for-impact 🚀/ Vampiire’s unrelenting adventure to automate manual tasks and help teams reach their full potential.
Team: Vampiire
Github repo
Bonus: A few select picks from past Chingu teams:
Matchbot —optimal collaboration matcher using IBM’s AI, Watson
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: Greece, USA
Team: Periklis Panagiotis Arnaoutis & Traci Cremeans
About: This team will eventually go down in the Chingu-Build-of-Fame for how well they worked together. Their passion for coding was infectious and built some really cool projects together. Including the next one…
Slack-Portal — A portal web service and bot for Slack
Chingu project type: Tier-3 🐻, build-to-learn, build-for-impact 🚀
Countries: Greece, USA
Team: Periklis Panagiotis Arnaoutis & Traci Cremeans
About: This project is bananas and was even used to do a Ask Me Anything session with Quincy Larson, as well as some other awesome senior developers!!
Dev-Dash—Next-tab Chrome extension that visualizes github repos!
Chingu project type: Tier-2 🐢 (back before @belcurv was helping build full-stack applications like Co/ment), build-to-learn, build-for-impact
Countries: USA
Team: belcurv (original team has others but Jay put the project on his back when others got too busy and finished it)
Github repo
That’s it for now, folks!
Until next time, may your caffeinated beverages be strong & your learning continuous!
p.s. There are around 100 teams from people all over the world collaborating with code as I type this.
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