Covsafe

Inspiration

Our inspiration behind this app is to provide a community-friendly covid tracking help that helps users stay safe from areas affected.

What it does

Our app uses data such as user's personal information and location provided by the users with their consent to help them avoid covid affected areas by providing them with an opportunity to talk to other users with their personal information hidden to share their experiences, through using the map feature that indicates affected areas based on colour code, and through a gaming feature that provides them rewards if they stay at home and win rewards.

How we built it

We built the app using react-native so that the app is compatible with ios and android.

Challenges we ran into

Some of the challenges we ran into are as follows: we had to research a lot about implementing features that have not been implemented in other covid tracking apps, for having some of our team become familiar with a new programming language.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud that we were able to build a basic version of our app in two days and to have analyzed the pros and cons of our app and trying to increase the pros compared to a lot of other apps.

What we learned

We have learnt the importance of using the user's data with consent, about earning the user's trust and making a covid tracking app that is user-friendly through a social media feature and games feature helps make a boring and a scary app more interesting.