Goodwill-NUS

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Inspiration

Motivated by the concept of Million Acts of Good, we wanted to create a platform where people can request and give help easily and to match this supply and demand. We believe that just one small act of kindness can go a long way.

What it does

The application matches users who need assistance and user who are available to help. A user of the application can take on 2 personas.

First, as the “helper”. The user can scan the surrounding area for people who require assistance. The tasks are usually simple favours that would not require much expense. Once the user finds a request that they can help fulfil, they may accept the request and converse with the person who requires help via Telegram.

Second, as the “helpee”. The user needs assistance and turns to the webapp for help by sending out a help request. They can input the title, description, time needed and their current location or a specified location. They then wait for a Good Samaritan who, sure enough, accepts the request, sending a notification to the user. The user may then chat with the helper to settle the nitty gritty details. Once done, both helpee and helper feel satisfied and happy.

How we built it

The webapp is built in Reactjs and interfaced with Google Maps API and mapbox API

Challenges we ran into

Learning React and learning to implement the APIs in a short amount of time proved difficult. Designing the UI/UX was challenging as we did not have users to test and collect feedback from.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud to have completed a functioning front-end application in the short time that we had. We are proud to have persevered through all the code errors and breakdowns. We have learnt a lot about product management, React and APIs through this hackathon.

What's next for Goodwill-NUS

We hope to improve on many of the features and add a backend, user log-in and authentication, chat features between users, enhanced UI/UX design, in-app notifications and a reward system.