Home Screen - Dashboard
Sample Location Map #1 - Seattle, WA
Sample Location Map #2 - New York City, NY

Avoid

Project for IvyHacks 2020 (Team Zyndie)

Team

Filippo Fonseca - Full-Stack Engineer, Content

Mark Music - Full-Stack Engineer, Design

Daniel Giacomin - Backend Engineer

Story and Idea

Welcome to Avoid, an all in one COVID-19 platform Designed to satisfy the critical information needs the pandemic has uncovered We've designed Avoid to be an easy, compact, and efficient platform, using one of the most reliable API's out there; Google Map's API, among others. Users get real time COVID-19 statistics, data, and actionable functionality like nearby testing locations that are being updated live by a variety of advanced APIs such as the COVID Project API utilized by The Atlantic. Avoid differs from similar apps as it has an easy to maneuver user interface, real time Coronavirus updates, and testing centers nearby with optimal location generation using Geocoding features. Avoid also provides the latest in corona virus news and updates with functionality such as relevant article recommendations hand picked for the user, and streams of general corona virus information. The Avoid team is always looking for new opportunities, and thus we're making an app compatible with future pandemics/issues, such as natural disasters, virus outbreaks, and many other issues that will be sure to impact many people in desperate times. The team greatly appreciate your time. We hope that Avoid can in some way shape or form make your life easier.

Built With

Submitted to

IvyHacks: First Ivy League Hackathon

Created by

I built the Dashboard. This included the managing real-time Covid-19 Data with State, implementing the Map, building a progressive layout that adjusts to your screen, and the fetching data for the Latest Articles Tab.

Mark Music
I created most of the backend infrastructure for Avoid. This included handling important aspects of the application, such as the location database and its queries. I also contributed to the content leading the video editing.

Daniel Giacomin
I built the Map functionality/feature set primarily. This included managing the state of the Google Maps API, handling its requests, fetches, markers, respective properties, etc, and more. Creating the map feature also involved querying the database for the COVID-19 testing locations and utilizing Geocoding properties to find nearby locations to the user in their respective cities. In addition, I also contributed to the design/UI part of the application and content production as well.

Filippo Fonseca