So I attended the UWaterloo Hackathon the other night and it was a rereally neat experience. There were a ton of people there, and some folks came down from Google Waterloo to help out with judging and mentoring.

As for my personal project, I decided to make an attempt at solving a problem I face a lot in my personal life. I have a practice of sending my close friends lots of links over facebook and other mediums. Sometimes, my friends are too busy to look at it right then and there. But later, when I ask them about the link to discuss it with them, the link is somewhere up in the conversation thread and it becomes too much of a hassle to retrieve it again. That’s where CheckIt comes in. My goal is to allow friends to send each other links in a private way, so that when they log in, they see your links displayed in chronological order so they can catch up on anything you left them. I’m also planning to allow the user to leave a quick comment on the link, expressing how they feel about it. This summer I plan to integrate with facebook so that whenever a link is sent in your chats, CheckIt can just ship it off to your account so that you can read it later whenever you want.

You can CheckIt right now although the functionality is pretty bare. Next on my list of improvements is better routing, autocomplete for link recipients, and being able to send “friend requests” so you can approve who you’ll get links from.