{"id":16403,"date":"2025-05-09T10:04:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/?p=16403"},"modified":"2025-11-11T15:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:10:51","slug":"spark-2025-demo-day-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/2025\/05\/09\/spark-2025-demo-day-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Today: Fashion Social Networking App Wins at Spring 2025 Spark! Demo Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Excerpt from BU Today | By: Sujena Soumyanath | May 9,<\/span>\u00a02025\u00a0| <\/span>Photo: Zakariya Hussein<\/p>\n

With a wealth of influencers, brands, clothes, and aesthetics saturating the fashion world, pinpointing your personal style can seem daunting. It\u2019s no wonder The Telegraph once reported women spend 287 days of their lives deciding what to wear.<\/p>\n

Here at BU, a group of students is tackling the issue.<\/p>\n

Yuting Lin (CFA\u201926, CAS\u201927), Janet Liu (CFA\u201926), Anh Tran (CAS\u201925), Isaac Chan (CAS\u201927), and Kate Seo (CAS\u201926) designed Fitted, a fashion-focused social networking app that lets users share pictures of their outfits with close friends. The app\u2019s focus on style inspiration and mindful fashion consumption\u2014without the pressures of traditional social media\u2014drew the judges\u2019 attention at the spring 2025 BU Spark! Demo Day, held May 2.<\/p>\n

The twice-annual Demo Day allows students in BU Spark! the innovation and experiential learning lab at BU\u2019s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, to showcase their projects. It also features a competition for the judges\u2019 choice award, won by Fitted.<\/p>\n

When the victorious project was announced, the Fitted team erupted in cheers of surprise and excitement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that our story and our values around authenticity and friendship aligned with the judges, I think, was really surprising, but also rewarding,\u201d Seo says.<\/p>\n

The idea for Fitted came from Seo\u2019s experience at the intersection of fashion and social media. She says posting her outfits on Instagram began to feel intimidating because so many people could see them, but she still wanted to document her style.<\/p>\n

The solution? An OpenAI-powered app that takes the pressure off of posting. Fitted posts appear on the feed for only 24 hours, do not feature the traditional \u201clike\u201d system, and stay between close friends.<\/p>\n

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