iamnotokay.

Our Project

www.Iamnotokay.space is a one-of-a-kind, exclusive website that helps people to try and overcome their depression and anxiety. We use a virtuous and a user-friendly system that allows users of our website to share and read other people's stories and the challenges they faced or had to overcome.

Inspiration

When we knew that the hackathon's theme was to present viable solutions, we thought about what was important to its core. Then, we came to a conclusion; human lives are essentially the most indispensable. And with depression levels increasing year after year, and with roughly 2 million children being diagnosed with it, Do we really want people to die over things that can be helped? The answer is painfully obvious. So, how do we solve this? BY LISTENING.

What iamnotokay does

Users of our website can reply to other people's stories, share the stories to let other people know that they're not alone, like other user's posts, and finally, we even have a machine learning AI that helps us filter out negative comments and or replies!

Iamnotokay is the best platform to listen and learn that everyone's ultimately, well, human.

How we built it

We used React.JS as our main Front-End framework and Firebase Firestore to store all of our data. We also fully designed the intuitive and minimalist UI in Adobe XD. In the final few hours, we decided to implement our NLP by using Tensorflow.JS to track toxicity words and behavior of the written content. Moreover, we injected SCSS as our CSS preprocessor into our project due to its convenience and ease of use.

Challenges we ran into

The most noticeable challenge this time around was learning how to integrate machine learning in the span of 24-ish hours. Due to us being beginners in the machine learning space, we were missing a few concepts.

Finally, research on the subject of depression and anxiety was exceptionally hard

What we Learned

When we decided that we wanted to get into this field, many statistics and data were needed for our machine learning expedition. Learning about integrating people's stories about how they went through depression and how they eventually overcame them was tough, but needed.

Due to us plunging into the machine learning space, we managed to learn new and important machine learning skills that we can use in the real world.

What's next for Iamnotokay

With the launch of our website, our team hopes to make the website more user-friendly than it already is. Furthermore, creating a mobile app would be our optimum goal as 66.85% of people have mobile devices in the world (according to bankmycell). By utilizing this statistic, Iamnotokay can grow its userbase and hopefully help people who are going through depression.