The motivation behind this app was for the most part that I had some spare time and was trying to explore new hobbies as well as pursue my current ones, and so I thought that there should be a platform that allows people to connect with others who share similair hobbies. The name is a reference to the 1979 song Escape by Rupert Holmes.

If You Like Piña Coladas(IYLP) allows users to register, login, search for a hobby from a large selection of different hobbies, and then connect with others by making posts in various forums inside of the respective hobby home page.

This app was built using a Next.JS frontend with a Node backend supported by a Neo4j database. The hobbies were collected using a seperate webscaper python script which pulled all the hobbies from Wikepedia.

My greatest takeway from this project was increased experience using graph databases, along with plenty of practice designed user friendly interfaces with Figma before developing the product.