BeSTEP

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  Daily step tracker and walking status

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  Not enough steps reached progress

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  Add suggested friends and contacts

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  Demo of creating a BeSTEP

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  Demo of project with other team

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General - Health 1001

Inspiration

We found our selves spending lots of time in the morning on social media. This was negatively impacting our mental health. We though it would be an interesting concept to limit social media access based on physical activity. We also remembered back to covid lockdowns how we enjoyed spending time with our families on walks. The concept of a social media that required you to be active was intriguing to us and we though it would be a good way to foster community.

What it does

beSTEP is a beReal clone that serves as a proof of concept for activity activated social media. beSTEP is a social media platform that will only allow you to post and interact with content once you have met activity goals for the day. beReal was a good candidate for a proof of concept as the daily interaction and spontaneity helps to make users feel connected. We felt that these qualities would be bolstered well by the activity requirement, allowing users to feel they are apart of a active community.

How I built it

Flutter was used to create the app frontend. Firebase was used to enable to backend

Challenges I ran into

None of our team members had used firebase before, and 2/3 of us were rather unfamiliar with flutter

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We our proud to have even created something! This was the first hackathon for most of the group, with only one member having attended a hackathon previously. We are shocked but happy we were able to piece something of this quality together so quickly.

What I learned

We have learned a ton! One of our team members is a mechanical engineering student and has never made an app before! Another team member, had only ever developed in Android and this was his first time trying out a cross-platform solution, flutter, so we could make this for both iPhones and Android. We also learned how to delegate tasks to complete our tasks on a strict deadline.

What's next for BeSTEP

Our next steps are to expand BeSTEP to block all social media platforms until the daily walking target is reached. All social medias can become very time consuming, by limiting social media until a physical goal is reached can help improve the productivity and health of our users.

Built With

• firebase
• flutter