My October Passion Project: Gameo

Hello everyone! Time sure flies fast and it’s almost the end of October! For those who participated in Hacktoberfest, congratulations! I hope it went well and amazing.

As for me, though I initially wanted to participate as well, I found Facebook’s 2020 Developer Circles Community Challenge to be interesting, so I decided to sign up for that instead.

Hence, I built a project with a friend throughout the month of October to submit it for the hackathon. The hackathon finally ended and so in this article, I’d like to share with you what I’ve built, challenges I’ve faced and how I overcome them.

Introducing Gameo

Gameo is a game recommendation engine that helps anyone to discover and play games. Using a matrix factorization-based model built with PyTorch, Gameo recommends users games via collaborative filtering.

To use Gameo, simply create an account and add games you’ve played to your Library.