BestNeighbor

Login Page
Register Page
Once the user registers/logs in successfully, they have the option to choose whether to volunteer or ask for items using wishlists
If the user clicks "Ask", the user can create a wishlist by typing a list of items into the text box.
If the user clicks "Volunteer", the user can view all wishlists along with their status.
After clicking on a wishlist, the volunteer can click the "Wishlist Completed!" button to indicate a successful delivery.
BestNeighbor About Page

Inspiration

COVID-19 is a new, highly contagious disease that is spreading throughout the world at a fast rate. Many people who are classified as “at-risk” are not able to leave their homes safely to get essential items such as food and toilet paper. Shelter-in-place orders have also isolated many people from gatherings with family and friends.

Our team wants to bring back a sense of community and promote positivity during this difficult time- starting with your neighborhood!

What it does

Through BestNeighbor, a person in need of help can provide a wishlist of items they need from a local store along with their zip-code. Volunteers can then log in and see wishlists available within a selected zip-code. These two users will be able to contact each other and coordinate payment and delivery.

How we built it

In 48-hours, our team brainstormed the project idea, built, integrated and tested the web-app using the following software stack: Backend: PostgreSQL, Flask, SqlAlchemy Frontend: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap

Challenges we ran into

Time constraint Learning git branch merging

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Our team is made up of recent software engineering academy grads who had never collaborated on a software project of this size before. We learned to split the work and collaborate through git as we went, and did it successfully!

What we learned

Our team learned how to collaborate remotely, allowing us to work more efficiently Git branching was a big part of this project, having to work remotely The importance of communication Helping others can inspire creativity

What's next for BestNeighbor

The following features are planned for implementation:

Secure messaging within web-app to keep user’s personal phone number and email private
Ratings system for volunteers
User verification

Built With

Submitted to

COVID-19 Global Hackathon 1.0

Created by

I worked on the both backend frontend of this project. Using AJAX requests along with Bootstrap, I was able to get data called from the database to the backend using an API, jsonifying the data, and calling the data from the JSON file using key value pairing.

Kimberly Chuc
EMT turned Software Engineer, recently graduated from Hackbright Academy!
I resolved merge conflicts and coordinated git merge for the team. I also assisted with writing the data model, database seed files, and html files.

JKinsler
Worked on communication between front-end and back-end, wrote volunteer routes on the back-end, learned about git branching and worked through merge conflicts.

Jessica Huynh
Worked as a full stack engineer with both backend and frontend team with main focus on frontend. Also, implemented some DevOps practises to improve the team results. Helped with debugging and improving the app in both front and backend.

Bahar Asefi
Entrepreneur turned developer interested in backend and full stack engineering.
I coordinated team meetings and worked on system design and
the backend to post users' information to the database and query database to update all the info on the website. It's the first time for us to practice git branching. I'm so proud of us!

Yichen Dai
Teacher-turned-developer interested in full stack software engineering
Worked on the front-end and web app documentation.

Nichole Reyes
Amber Chan
Aspiring developer currently studying at Hackbright Academy

Updates

Kimberly Chuc started this project — Mar 30, 2020 05:34 AM EDT

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Jessica Huynh posted an update — Mar 30, 2020 12:07 AM EDT

Worked on communication between front-end and back-end, wrote volunteer routes on the back-end, learned about git branching and worked through merge conflicts.

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