Hopeful

MockUp of Hopeful (Dark)
MockUp of Hopeful (Light)

Inspiration

In order to ensure the safety of others, it is important to maintain social distancing and stay at home when possible. Keeping that in mind, our app idea came from a unique problem that people are facing in quarantine.

How do you say goodbye to loved ones who passed away?

What it does

Hopeful includes multiple features to provide users mental health resources and technology to aim them in the process of coming to terms with grief and loss:

Create a memorial page for someone who recently passed away where users upload photos, videos, messages to share their memories.
Funeral services live-streaming via Zoom
Online group counseling live-streaming via Zoom
External mental health resources
Fundraisers to help the family to raise funeral funds

How we built it

Using Figma, we build a low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototype. Additionally, we coded a lot of the prototype using the Angular Framework and Angular Material to make a functioning web application.

Challenges we ran into

Virtually debugging is a challenge. Helping a team member through text and photos was a challenge since we couldn't test commands out or look through the code. We also had trouble setting up the configurations to connect Firestore with our web app because it was our first time using Angular. It took a long time to identify a bug where we are retrieving from the wrong data collection from our existing database on Firestore.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Hack'20 is the first hackathon for many of us. We are proud of how we manage to research, ideate, and design our project in a timely manner. Our developers are very proud to have learned and worked with Angular for the first time. It was a great accomplishment to not give up when unable to find the bugs keeping us from connecting to the database and finally identify the problem.

What we learned

Some of us have worked with TypeScript while some of us haven't! With the help of teammates, we helped each other learn Angular. Learning to work and discuss with a team was our biggest lesson today. Hacking virtually was definitely an enlightening experience!

What's next for Hopeful

Continue to build out Hopeful into a fully functioning web application as well as maturing our integration of Firestore for user authentication, robust data manipulation and retrieval, and managing security of these online profiles.