Inspiration
Aggregation apps
What it does
Create a Real Time Feed for victims in emergency situations, their families and first responders
How we built it
IBM Bluemix, Node.js, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
Challenges we ran into
IBM Bluemix went down, Internet, learning curve on Node.js and Bluemix, issues with Twitter API
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Getting the map to populate the emergency message and having a solid idea to begin with that we can continue to build on after this hackathon
What we learned
How to use IBM Bluemix and the neat integrations it has and more familiar with Node.js
What's next for ermaApp
Further developer includes integrating social media (Twitter), figuring out how/when to eliminate issues that have been resolved, adding SMS capabilities, sort/filter and search options for the local area, etc.
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