Story

I like Secret Santa or as we say in Germany to wichtel ;). Like years before I am part of one or more groups. Like this year (2016) we do it for christmas. The problem was, we are all scattered around Germany. So we needed a third instance to trust on so there is no person who knows the outcome.

Gladly, there exits a website called Wichtel-O-Mat. This services allows you to enter eMail addresses and the service will send out mails with all needed information about the person you may get a present for.

This service inspired me. At this time I was looking for a project, which is not too big and easy to develop so I can realize it with AdonisJS. The goal was not to create something completely new, but to have a side project to work on where I can learn AdonisJS and how to deploy and run a service properly.

However, Wichtel-O-Mat is nice and I don't want to copy it completely. I thought about it and found out, that this service has no API and I poor developers cannot use it :O

Not Anymore

To keep the project even simpler I decided to focus on developers only. That said, wichteln-as-a-service is born. The app runs on AdonisJS and offers a REST API.

Now even remote developers can play Secret Santa \o/