UIUCHotspots was developed with the intention of solving the common question of “where are parties tonight?” at the university with one of the largest Greek life systems in the nation.
It was intended to be a small side project, however, as users started to grow, we started to invest more time into the algorithm that it runs on and new features for our users.
The premise of the website is simple. Each day a user gets three upvotes and three downvotes to indicate how popular a certain place is on campus. The site then ranks these places according to the daily user data and past data as well. Then, at 4 am each day, the data resets and the cycle starts all over again.
(Post by @uiuchotspots on Instagram)