Green Days

Make today a little greener!

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Inspiration

Often, large problems can be intimidating and can paralyze us. When issues like climate change are complicated and difficult (due to factors like weather), it can feel impossible to make an impact. Our aim is to allow the ordinary person to contribute the most positive impact on the environment while using the least physical and mental effort. Green Days does that by providing feasible and simple actions one can partake in to do their part!

What it does

Green Days provides daily actionable suggestions that aim to help the environment. Using weather data for a specific location, a list of feasible and easy actions can be generated, which are then presented to the user for implementation in that location.

How we built it

Using the SvelteKit framework and the skeleton ui library to prototype the design. Firebase was also considered however more time was needed to integrate authentication due to the nature of Sveltekit. A better option could have been pocket base as it is simpler to set up but at the time we also wanted access to Firestore to possibly store user data.

Challenges we ran into

This was our first times using the SvelteKit library. We had heard a lot from the web development community about its amazing developer experience and, thus, decided to use it. However, there are a lot of features of SvelteKit that we didn't initially know about which made us waste a lot of time debugging

Before SvelteKit, we were actually planning to use android studio to create a mobile app. However, due to the hardware limitations our computers presented, that was not possible.

Moreover, the weather API that we used formatted the JSON in a manner that was hard to decipher and thus, working around that was not easy

Accomplishments that we're proud of

In a short time we were able to get the hang of SvelteKit and understood the rapid prototyping abilities that UI libraries provided!

What we learned

There is a lot of planning that goes in to software and we should have realized that. Before we started we should have looked through possible technology options and ideas. In hindsight, there were better frameworks that we could have used. Additionally, the technologies provided by the hackathon could have been very well integrated.

What's next for Green Days

A mobile application for ease of use, more suggestions and a points and verification system to incentivize and gamify sustainability are all ways we plan on expanding Green Days! Hopefully, the goal is kids and adults alike can have fun while making the earth a better place.

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