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  Register, Login and build your profile.

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  Choose which type of bill you want to upload.

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  Upload the bill and submit.

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  We process and add reward points!

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  Go claim your rewards in rewards section!

The Problem?

The climate crisis is the most critical challenge that our generation will ever have to face. And even though we are the most hands-on generation yet more often than not, not seeing tangible results for our actions and constantly being told our efforts do not matter can cause eco-fatigue.

What we need is a way to build community and to be able to see how our small changes can actually make an impact on the world.

The Idea?

Our Idea GreenMoves attempts to prevent the offset of eco-fatigue by gamifying the experience of making environmentally conscious decisions by rewarding the user every time they choose to be environmentally conscious.

We hope that by rewarding users for making sustainable choices that we may help users build long term habits that may be passed down generations to come.

Moreover the rewards we provide are discounts and freebies for small sustainable environmentally aware businesses. This ensures that the cycle of sustainability continues, and that our mission of being climate aware is continued by our partners.

How does it work?

Step 1: Tell us about yourself. Login and Signup. Fill out our questionnaire for us to understand your sustainability routes a bit better? What is your primary mode of transportation? How often do you shop with plastic bags?

What are the main areas you would like to work on? Let us know.

This helps us personalise your GreenMoves experience.

Step 2: Every time you ride a bus instead of taking your car, get an electricity bill, shop at a grocery store (and don't use a plastic bag) or buy some more plants, take a picture and upload your receipt, ticket, or invoice to GreenMoves.

Step 3: Wait as the object character recognition verifies the image you have uploaded:

If your power consumption has been less than usual If you chose to take the bus If you have a unique code GreenMoves barcode on your the receipt (And many more to come…)

Step 4: If you have satisfied any of the above conditions, Congratulations! You have earned yourself some GreenFootprints! Save them for as long as you’d like or spend them right away.

Step 5: Visit our rewards store every so often. If you find a sustainable reward that catches your eye go ahead and redeem or even donate it to your favorite charity.

Good job on doing your part to save the planet! The Earth is proud of you!

Why GreenMoves?

We truly believe that our generation has the power to better the hurt we have caused to our planet. Armed with the right tools, the power of tech and a communal mindset we can inch towards a better future.

A little incentive to do the right thing is the driving force behind our idea. This sort of solution has worked before in other scenarios but has never been tried in this realm and this is our differentiator.

And in a world where it feels like we are a single soldier in an uphill battle helping us realize that we have community and that acts that may seem negligible to us actually does make a change is the difference between eco fatigue and eco fighters.

The Challenges?

Technical:

Yashu: When we initially thought of this idea we wanted to ensure that a wide range of people would have access to this app regardless of what phone they have. The answer to this was to build in a cross platform development tool. Problem being we haven’t ever worked with a cross platform tool ever before! So figuring out how to do what we wanted with what we already know and rolling with the punches was probably my biggest challenge.

Sneha: I think my biggest challenge I faced was probably Integration. I had the backend on my machine and Yashu had the frontend on his but couldn't figure out how to make them communicate with each other. We had contacted nearly everyone we knew before we could finally figure it out.

Ideological:

Yashu: We realised early on that we had a good cause but just because its a good cause how do we get people to use our app. We need a motivator and we need that motivator to be valuable to the user. But I'm really happy with what we came up with given the time span.

Sneha: The challenge I faced was one, actually understanding in depth the root problem that we face with respect to doing right by our planet and second, making sure our product could not be taken advantage of. Working backwards and ensuring that there are no loopholes that anyone with the wrong intentions can take advantage of. We really love our idea and hope you do too!

Built With

• axios
• easyocr
• flask
• python
• react-native