Your Private Chat Space & Couple's Game Hub. No cap. 💯
Built for trust, safety, and deep psychological insights. We literally can't see your convo — not even the dev who built us.
Welcome to Sidechick, an application designed from the ground up for our college community. We wanted a place to chat, vibe, and play games with friends or partners without worrying about data harvesting, creepy tracking, or boring, lifeless interfaces.
Whether you want to dive deep into secure, ephemeral Private Chat Rooms, or find out how well you really know your partner in the synchronized Couple Games arena, Sidechick is your spot.
A high-tech, end-to-end encrypted feel. Chat with your friends knowing that as soon as the room is empty, everything auto-destructs.
- Dynamic Mood Backgrounds: The interface is alive. The background shifts in real-time based on the AI-detected emotional tone of the conversation.
- Detective Mode: An immersive, high-tech "terminal" aesthetic for investigative sessions, tracking behavioral drift and keeping the vibe safe.
- Identity Glows: Every participant gets a unique, hashing-based color glow to their message bubbles.
A synchronized, real-time multiplayer experience designed to test your bond. Grab an invite code, send it to a friend, and play simultaneously!
- Game Modes: "Spicy or Sweet", "Truth or Lie", and "Couple Trivia".
- Real-Time Sync: When you choose an answer, the game locks in and waits for your partner. See the results instantly!
- The Climax: An animated heartbeat results screen with a beautifully animated compatibility ring. If you score over 80%, watch the screen explode in fireworks and confetti! 🎆
We split the deployment into two parts to keep things lightning fast:
- Frontend (Vercel): The beautiful HTML/CSS/JS interface.
- Backend (Render): The Python Flask server handling the WebSockets, real-time game states, and AI logic.
Want to run the whole thing on your own machine? It's easy:
# 1. Install the requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt
# 2. Download the NLP datasets (only needed once!)
python -c "import nltk; nltk.download('punkt'); nltk.download('averaged_perceptron_tagger')"
# 3. Fire up the server
python app.pyOpen http://127.0.0.1:5000 in your browser and you're in!
If you make changes to the UI and want to push them to Vercel, run our handy sync script:
python build_frontend.pyThis prepares everything in the sidechick-frontend/ directory, ready to be deployed.
- Backend: Python 3.11, Flask, Flask-SocketIO (Eventlet) for blazing fast real-time sync.
- NLP Engine: TextBlob + Custom Recurrent Sequence Model for mood tracking.
- Frontend: Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS (Custom Modern Design System, absolutely no templates!).
Built with ❤️ by Team Grey Hats.
| Contributor | Role | Socials | |
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Adarsh Arya | Lead Developer & Architect |   |
Created for the community. Your vibes, your rules.