Envi | Devpost

Inspiration

Inspired by the hero prompt of UGA Hacks9, we felt compelled to create an application that would make us the heroes of our planet. After brainstorming, we decided to create Envi, a web application that serves to reduce carbon footprint on an individual level.

What it does

Envi aims to achieve this by tracking common ways people impact environmental health. Take transportation, where the average American uses 23.30 gallons of gas per week. Our goal is to try and reduce this number at the individual level by promoting alternatives to driving a car like public transportation, walking, carpooling, or biking. We also analyze two other common utilities, water usage and general waste management. The user can track their data and see their weekly impact compared to the average American. With this information, we hope to inspire and motivate users to be conscious of their daily decisions regarding these topics and the overall future of our planet.

How we built it

Figma, React.js, CSS, JavaScript, HTML, VS Code, GitHub

Challenges we ran into

The first problem we faced was when we were brainstorming ideas for our overall design. We tended to look at more specific aspects rather than the big picture which caused us to delay our final product. However, the biggest problem our team ran into was integrating our Figma design with the React.js web app. Some of the designs did not translate over to the web app as perfectly as we had hoped. We spent many hours researching how to resolve this issue and came across many helpful resources. Unfortunately, we did not get our desired result but are still proud of what we came up with regardless.

What's next for Envi

One of the features we implemented was a weekly list where users are suggested to perform environmentally friendly tasks. In the future, we hope to incentivize performing these tasks by providing users with rewards. In addition, we hope to integrate further customizations and features to enhance the user experience.