🚀 Family Chat Alert

Android-based AI-driven text message filter for senior citizens

📋 Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Team
3. Problem Statement
4. MVP
5. Scope
6. Tech Stack
7. Setup
8. Contributing
9. License

🎯 Overview

Sundai Club Age Hackathon (05/25/2025) project to filter scam messages for senior citizens by integrating AI into an Android chat application.

Sources: AjayTS Medium

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Team

• Avrahm — Project Lead
• Will Sarg — Backend Developer
• Jacqueline — Backend Developer
• Dominic — AI Engineer
• Harry — AI Engineer

🛠 Problem Statement

How might we filter scam messages for senior citizens?

Identify and block potential scams in text conversations to protect our senior users.

🚀 MVP

• Android-based text messaging app
• AI-powered message classification and filtering

🔍 Scope

• Frontend: React Native (Android)
• AI Integration: Prompt engineering, model inference
• Backend: Node.js/Express

💡 Tech Stack

• Frontend: React Native
• Backend: Node.js, Express
• AI: Perplexity
• Database: MongoDB

⚙️ Setup

1. Clone the repo:

   git clone https://github.com/willsarg/family-chat-alert.git

2. Install dependencies:

   cd family-chat-alert
   npm install

3. Configure environment variables:
   • OPENAI_API_KEY
4. Run the app:

   npm run android

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open issues and submit pull requests.

📜 License

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.