In an age of one's digital presence getting bigger, making robust tools for causes that need them is important. We align ourselves with DCMH and want to make their online tools more robust.
Inspiration: Hailing from San Jose, a city rampant with homelessness and displaced people, homelessness and structural inequality is something that we work towards solving. After reading about DCMH, we aligned ourselves with their mission and decided to use the prompt that they were looking out for.
What it does: It's an inventory management system for people within DCMH, while for a regular person, it is a robust Donation page that gives them several options on how to donate to the cause.
How we built it: We used React, HTML, CSS, Python, Flask, and Django to build the entire application.
Challenges we ran into: Connecting the two parts of the project: the revamped donation page, along with the inventory management system was one of the main challenges that we ran into. Along with a lot of debugging that came with the dynamic structure of our coding process. Always creating new ideas and making adjustments meant that there was a lot of debugging to do.
Accomplishments that we're proud of: Getting the entire application to align with the vision that we had at the beginning of the process along with actually experimenting and trying out new technologies with Flask and React.
What we learned: How the tech stack works with the frontend working with the backend, grasping new technology like Flask and React, and the development cycle of a new project and what it takes to take the ideas and bring them into reality.
What's next for DCMH Donation & Inventory Project: Adding more features and making it more robust to make it a full-fledged application. Bringing in new components, ideas, and visions so that the application can grow into being a tool that is used by many people.
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