I abandoned my campus app 3 years ago. The Finish-Up-A-Thon made me fix it

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built CampusBeat 2.0 — a React Native campus super-app for students across 17 colleges in Odisha, India. It started in 2023 as a simple notice board aggregator: scrape college websites so students didn't have to visit them. It worked. Students used it. Then life happened, and it sat untouched on GitHub for three years. This challenge gave me the push to finally open that repo again. What I found was equal parts embarrassing and educational. What it is now: 📰 Real-time notices for 17 colleges — ITER, KIIT, NIT Rourkela, IIT, and more 🎨 Complete UI overhaul — warm cream × charcoal × coral editorial design 🃏 3D tiltable campus identity card you can share with friends 🔖 Bookmarks — save any notice, grouped by college 💬 Real-time campus chat rooms powered by Socket.io 🛒 Campus marketplace — buy/sell within your college 🔔 Push notifications via Firebase Demo The original app from July 2023: LinkedIn post CampusBeat 2.0 — running on device: Onboarding screen - with beautiful animation Onboarding.mp4 - Google Drive drive.google.com Login screen — editorial serif heading, Lottie animation, warm ink hero Register screen — custom college picker bottom sheet with live search Home screen — quote card, college notice feed, floating tab bar Profile screen — 3D tiltable campus card with holographic shimmer Share modal — drag to rotate the card, share natively News Explorer — college chips, notice type tabs, live banner Marketplace — buy and sell within your college Bookmark - your persistent news bookmark.mp4 - Google Drive drive.google.com Chat screen - live interaction within colleges chat.mp4 - Google Drive drive.google.com The Comeback Story What I found after 3 years Opening an old repo is humbling. Here is what I walked into. The dead API. The home screen showed a daily quote — except quotable.io had shut down. Every user was silently seeing the hardcoded fallback for three years: "Villains are not bad, the