Hello Application: This is a Service-oriented product which integrates the surrounding unknown-people to meet and decide their journey safe, cheaper and happy. The basic idea goes like this - We normally go out individually, it may be for a purpose. But most of the times when we are alone our journey becomes boring. Now the world is going to become interesting and curious about this upcoming product.
You can get a good idea of this working rule of this app by watching this video.
Concept: This is a Service-oriented Project, this product allows unknown people to interact among themselves to make their travel Easy, Comfortable, Interesting and also reduces their travel expenditure.
We are going to make a user to register in our app with the few basic details and store their details in our database, If possible we can verify users with aadhar verification to avoid fake users.
So this app gets the current user’s location and also they can set their Destination in their dashboard then this apps shows the surrounding nearby people who are traveling in the same direction to the same nearby destination. They will be able to communicate by posting the request to the selected person if he or she is ready to travel with the requested person. After accepting their request we can allow themselves with the basic chat enabled system so that they can contact the person other side and can plan and enjoy their travel.
This is going to make them happy and their journey interesting. They can travel to different locations with the people surrounding him in his local area without the fear of traveling alone.
How did we come up with this idea?
We get to travel often due to various reasons. I too had to travel, sometimes with friends and family but most of the times alone. I am a guy who mingles with everyone and creates a friendly environment. But traveling alone was almost like hell. I then came up with this idea of having a companion in lonely travels. I wanted people to know that I was alone and needed a company throughout my journey. This may sound different but its the truth.
One day when I was in Kayamkulam and wanted to travel to Amritapuri alone it cost me around 300 rs only for me, I hesitated to find and directly ask the people around me to share the journey but I wanted to share my journey what to do? Anyway, I spent 320rs and reached my destination. In my travel, I got the Idea as many people may face the same problem how to overcome this situation? Then got up with the Idea “Hello App” with this I can now easily find someone and share my journey happily.
Also through this, we can also reduce our travel expenses when we find the person traveling in the same direction. Then they can interact with them self and decide their own way of travel. This idea not only gets companions for your journey but you can add them into your account and remain in contact if both the persons feel the other person is a good companion.
How ‘Hello’ is Different from Ola, Uber and other riding apps?
Ola, Uber and many similar companies were getting the travelers information and providing their service’s to the people with their tool’s [cars..] and are been benefited with the capital but in our Hello App, it’s different all the users will get the information, not the particular organization.
Similar Ideas: Bla Bla Car, Ola, Uber
How To Start? Structure And Base: The application built should be accessible by both computer users and the android users. So the plan is to make a Progressive Web App. So, what is a progressive web app? Progressive web apps are a type of magnification of the existing web technology. And also they do not require separate bundling or distribution. Progressive Web Apps known as PWA’s in short load like regular web pages but they can be accessed by the device offline with all the functionalities. They have a better user experience and boot faster compared to having to load in a browser.
Languages and Tools To be Used
The current plan is to build this application using Django framework in Python. Django is an ideal tool for building web pages as it makes the web development process very easy and the developer can fully focus on the designing process and boost the performance. Django helps in faster development easier as its easy to implement user authentication, content administration, RSS Feeds etc. Django is fast to load as compared to other.
For the maps we are using the Google Maps API which gets our current location through geolocation in our browsers. https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/geolocation
Features
Security: As per the present security issues we have thought to implement the Aadhar Card Verification for the application as that would reduce the number of spam users at a large scale, If aadhar is not possible will go with the Mobile number verification by OTP. If not once the users fix their travel companion and when they are ready to travel with them, then when those people click confirm travel, Then a computer-generated OTP is sent to the other person so that both can confirm themself at the right place.
Limitations: One person can also travel in a group, if both the users are interested and are in a need of one more companion they both have to click on a ‘addperson’ button available for this so they can start searching for their next companion too.
Search Filter: While searching for a companion there will be numerous search filters like Gender, Age, etc., along with the filter of Student. This will really help the students to have a safer travel. Eg: If the student wants to travel only with the students.
Mode: Along with these there is one more mode in this application known as the Business mode. So people with private travels or the Auto or Cab drivers can benefit using this application. They will have their own profile in this application as a vehicle owner.
Chat Privacy: After the companions have started their travel their chats will be deleted from the applications database to keep themselves private as before and will not be revealed to anyone. Eg: Snapchat.
Feedback: After every trip, there will be a prompt for feedback for the other person and the regarding the app too. If the person has misbehaved or something then that will be added as a remark into his profile.
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