# 🕰️Chrono Capsule

**Preserve a moment. Deliver it to the future.** An open-source platform to create encrypted, media-rich digital time capsules built on the MERN stack with scheduled unlocks, i.e. a digital time capsule. Send a message to the future — securely.

## 🚀 Features

- Auth system with login/register
- Capsule creation with text and media links
- Inline error handling and form validation
- End-to-end encryption for secure messages and media
- Scheduled to be unlocked for future delivery
- Email notifications on Capsule unlock via EJS templates + SMTP
- Minimal, responsive UI

## 🧱 Built With
- MongoDB – document-based database
- Express.js – backend framework
- React – dynamic capsule interaction
- Node.js – JavaScript runtime powering the server

## Setup

### (if you want to run a local instance)

1. Clone the repo and install dependencies
```
git clone https://github.com/PuneetGopinath/chrono-capsule
cd chrono-capsule
npm install
```

2. Create a `.env` file based on `.env.example` and fill in details

3. Run `npm run dev` & `npm run dev-frontend` (Not yet production ready)

## Changelog

[Changelog](https://github.com/PuneetGopinath/chrono-capsule/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)

## 📃 License

MIT © 2025 [Puneet Gopinath](https://github.com/PuneetGopinath)
This project is licensed under the MIT License — you’re free to use, fork, modify, and share.

## ❤️ Contributing

Open to contributors! Suggestions and pull requests are welcome.