Green Deeds

Inspiration

We felt Green Deeds fit perfectly with Kiva's mission to expand financial access to underserved individuals.

What it does

Our app rewards users for recycling and composting with crypto currency that they can convert to fiat. Our app then gives them the option to invest that earned fiat into kiva loans.

How we built it

We built the app using Expo, React Native, Graph QL and Firebase. We even designed our pages on Figma before integrating into the app.

Challenges we ran into

Figma turned out to be a little more complicated than expected, so we ended up just coding the frontend to resemble the Figma designs last minute. The entire team came through in the last five days despite all our prep and excitement over using Figma for an advanced UI experience.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're really proud of how well the team worked together considering it was everyone's first time working together. We all have different backgrounds and expertise, but we really all meshed well together and had a fun time making a solid MVP just in time for submission!

What we learned

We learned a variety of things, especially about Figma. We learned proper use of github branches while we each worked on different aspects of the app, and how to communicate via discord during the stressful last 24 hours of this hack! We all had such great attitudes and everyone rallied despite the setback with Figma integration.

What's next for Green Deeds

We hope to find investors for Green Deeds so that we can really spend time on the UI and the integration of Plaid and Celo's main blockchain (it's currently working on the development chain). Both co-founders are actively working and learning to understand how composting, recycling and the entire food cycle works so that Green Deeds can be an integral part in helping to incentivize the public to help restore the planet.

The co-founders, Anthony and Brittany, are so happy to have found a great team for this hackathon. Especially Brittany! She had been the only developer since the outset and she is so grateful to get a chance to work with a team for this hackathon that could contribute their advice and expertise. We all are so excited to submit to the Kiva hackathon and can't wait to continue their work together to bring Green Deeds to the masses!

Thank you Kiva for bringing us together!

Built With

• expo.io
• figma
• graphql
• reactnative