FellowHealth

Inspiration

Because of the Fellowship's remote nature, it is not always easy for fellows to feel at ease and not feel isolated. Because of the situation, fellows may be psychologically not at their best and this mental health situation may impact their experience during the MLH batch. These different factors were the true catalysts for the creation of Fellow Health, a web app enabling fellows to monitor and ask anonymously for help from pod leaders without any pressure.

What it does

The application consists of a questionnaire and a statistics page. The user logs into the system (as a fellow or as an admin) and can then fill out the questionnaire and visualise the results on the statistics page. The statistics page consists of visualisations of results over time as well as analytics to help the fellow with links to better their mental health.

How we built it

We built the tool using Java and the Spring framework. GitHub was used for version control and project management.

Challenges we ran into

We unfortunately ran into many challenges during the hackathon. Although the event started well and we clearly defined what we intended to build (ERD Diagram, Personas etc), things got complicated when we learned the day before the deadline that we needed to use Java and not React as a framework. This had a disastrous impact (UI was not clean at all, we lost time and were much more used to React).

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Building a tool that can have a real impact on fellows. ## What we learned
• Working remotely
• Working under pressure and big changes

What's next for FellowHealth

If there is time, we would like to continue to work on the project throughout the summer with our desired stack and add features to the project: more analytics, allow admins to change questions, better visualisations etc.

Built With

• java
• spring-boot