Involvee Times

Home page
Bills the user can participate in
One of three games
Local volunteering events
Send an email to your representatives directly

Inspiration

We've experienced firsthand how difficult it is to get involved with local community. Whether it is trying to volunteer, learn about bills that will directly impact you, as well as other general state legislation, there's no good way to find information for you specifically.

What it does

Involvee cuts the friction, finding bills that will directly impact the user, finding events the user could make an impact at, and helping the user voice their opinion.

How we built it

Involvee Times uses full-stack Typescript, with React for the frontend, and Express for the backend. tRPC is used to communicate between the two, with Exa and GPT-4o for the search, Twilio and Sendgrid for emailing users, and Postgres for the database. OpenStates was used for the state legislation data.

What's next for Involvee Times

Our first goal would be to improve the search, to find more options, especially options that are hidden behind pages of search results. We also would like to have more specific filters for users regarding email updates, with the goal to add the ability to filter via tags, categories, etc.