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dropasmileinthis.space
Inspiration
The world around us can be a sad and depressing place. However we are all willing to help another person out if we see or know about someone in distress or needing help. With technology we can make the helping nature of people come to life and spread smiles! .
What it does
this is like a waze of helping people. When we see or notice someone is trouble or needing help (not a 911 emergency, we absolutely recommend calling the authorities for anything observed of a serious nature) a user can place a pin with an emoji on it using our app. The emoji can signify what the problem is, and can be accompanied by a small text description and/or an image.When someone uses the app to see this, they have the chance to help the situation and can then share that they have changed this by changing the emoji of the pin into a smile :) .
How we built it
frontend was built with react native the maps were built using GCP google maps api the backend was built using GCP google serverless functions the database was hosted on mongodb atlas .
Challenges we ran into
keeping the map active and refreshed emoji animation
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Accomplishments that we're proud of
the system actually works.
What we learned
we were actually surprised this wasnt a thing before.
What's next for Drop-a-Smile
hopefully some charitable organization can use this system, we would be glad to build out a robust version for free use..
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