Invenire: A Real-Time Distributed Chatting Application to Help Solve Lost & Found Issues

Losing personal belongings such as car keys, precious gifts, or important documents can be a source of major inconvenience and grief. On the other hand, it is equally inconvenient if someone does stumble upon an important possession belonging to a stranger, and doesn’t have a platform to connect with the owner. These issues come under the term ‘lost and found’ problems and are far more serious than believed to be on the surface. Also, due to a lack of a dedicated platform to resolve the minor issues concerning this topic, these problems seem to be stacking and becoming more and more serious. The key concern of the topic is that even though solutions have been proposed before, most of them lack a certain set of mandatory features required to act as a one-in-all kind of tool. Based on that, a solution has been proposed as a web application ‘Invenire’ that provides a one-stop solution to all the relevant issues of this subject matter. From broadcasting the item details (be it lost or found) to a large crowd to a real-time live chatting system, this solution intends to answer all the questions being asked seamlessly. Another selling point concerning ‘Invenire’ as a solution revolves around the security aspects covered to maintain user privacy. The key novelty in the approach utilized for this solution’s development is centered around its microservice and serverless architecture. A hybrid architecture for chat system deployment and broadcasting posts has been utilized to increase the efficiency and overall performance of the application.