Flourish

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set Water Goal
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Hotlines

Inspiration

The struggle of intense studying and participating in extracurriculars has put a strain on highly ambitious students like us in high school. We’ve developed unhealthy habits, such as not drinking enough water or bottling our feelings, that have deteriorated our mental health. When researching the topic of mental health, we discovered that the availability of mental health resources between high- and low-income countries was huge. We then decided, with our own experience of mental health deterioration, that we should help close the gap in mental health resource availability and help others.

What it does

Included in the app are a water tracker, journal, focus mode, and a hotline search.

How we built it

At first, we tried building Flourish in Flutter. However, it got very complicated and we couldn’t see ourselves finishing within the time period. So, we switched to Thunkable. Each feature in the app was made on separate screens with a central home menu. The user can navigate into each screen and back out to the home menu. We also included a dropdown menu of emergency hotlines for many countries so that anyone can get resources no matter where they live.

Challenges we ran into

At first, the project was started in Flutter but we ran into problems with data storage, Alongside data storage, understanding the Flutter framework was confusing with the little knowledge we had. In Thunkable, we couldn’t find a feature to directly import screens as multiple people couldn’t work together on one project at a time (for free at least), so we had to one-by-one recreate our screens on one person’s project on their account, wasting a lot of time.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud to have developed a demo of Flourish in Thunkable despite our setback in Flutter. We are also proud to adapt to our current situation and switch over when we knew we couldn’t make a product in Flutter in time.

What we learned

We learned that mental health availability is disproportionately spread across the world. On the development end, we learned that even “beginner-friendly” frameworks like Thunkable can still produce quality products with efficient time usage.

What's next for Flourish

We will continue the development of Flourish in Flutter. Flutter will be available on ios, Android, windows, mac, and the web and can sync your data across all devices. Periodic notifications to drink water will be developed to make sure users are on top of their hydration goals. A new meditation tab will be added with exercises and sounds to help relax your mind. A sleep tracker will also be added. The app will show trends in your mood, water intake, focus times, and sleep on a weekly and monthly scale along with being able to see your data for any day (all the mentioned features in addition to the journal) through the central calendar. More resources for mental health will be added, such as a map to show users accessible resources in their area.