GGC Team #18 - JERM-20

Inspiration

Trying to see how we could help members of the community impacted by Covid-19 as well as have future implications to ease daily hassles. The elderly are more susceptible to the disease, and as a result, family members are unable to visit them or attend appointments with them during such a time.

2 of our teammates have watched our parents care for their elderly parents and see the strain of time and resources to take care of them, which became especially prominent during the pandemic. They had fear of giving them his horrible virus when visiting them.

What it does

Our app aims to develop an app that connects family, pharmacists, doctors and patients to ensure the patient can get the correct and appropriate medication delivered to their door to provide more peace of mind and convenience for all involved in the ecosystem for caring for the elderly.

How we built it

We prototyped through Figma, after conducting a survey with Google forms that were delivered to a range of people on numerous platforms including LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. We aimed for our app to be very simplistic so more tech-savvy elderly would still benefit using the app for themselves.

Challenges we ran into

As a team, we found it quite difficult to decide on one idea as we had so many plausible ones relating to different consumers and target audiences. Due to our market research, we pivoted on Thursday scrapping our idea about developing an app for the elderly to deliver medications to them, to a broader concept aimed at their families. The pivot also included the idea about doctors, pharmacists and patients being more interconnected.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This week has been jammed pack full of ups and downs, workshops and communication. We always managed to have checkpoints done on time and communicate effectively even cross time zones.

As a team, we worked well and communicated just as well. The fact that we were in a group of such determined individuals made this experience worthwhile and ultimately lead to a product we were all happy with.

What we learned

These ideas take time. Rome was not built in a day, and there are definitely awe-inspiring moments and there are also moments that bring out the worst due to the disappointment you feel when the idea you thought was going to work, didn't work. This experience has also taught us that failure is a learning process, and it's failure that helps us grow and improve both as individuals and improves our idea.

We have learnt something new every workshop, from problem statements to pitching our idea. This experience has been an amazing breakdown on how to pursue an entrepreneurial passion and when to pivot ideas.

What's next for JERM-20.

Elderly Fitness apps and Sanitizing perfumes

Built With

• connection
• love
• teamwork
• technology