Inspiration
One of our team members had implemented this idea in a narrower scope before but after a few conversations and disagreements we agreed on this idea due to its proposed positive impact on the community.
What it does
Kindred allows women's shelters, homeless shelters, food pantries, essentially any non-profit to create requests for donors to fulfill. For example, let's say Raleigh Rescue Mission is desperately in need of blankets but all the donations they're receiving are canned goods and toothbrushes, while they would appreciate those products, blankets would be more helpful. Kindred helps this need be met by connecting shelters and donors with quantifiable and specific requests.
How we built it
We used Flutter&Dart along with FirebaseDB to build this app. While developing this app, we ran both Android and iOS emulators as well as running the app locally on an Android phone.
What we're proud of
We're proud of our use of Firebase and the knowledge that we've gained in such a short period of time. Two of our team members came into this with little knowledge of Dart and Flutter but ended up learning a lot of practical skills that will apply to many aspects of our education and career.
Challenges we ran into
Merge conflicts/GitHub Computers Crashing due to overwhelmed people and systems. Conflicting ideas
What we learned
Through these brutal yet fruitful 24 hours, we learned the importance of keeping versions and branches up to date and somewhat similar. At one point everyone had branched so far off main, we had to essentially start from scratch. But thankfully, we learned from our mistakes and the second time around and worked more efficiently to avoid these issues.
What's next for Kindred
Ideally, we would like to add a Maps integration so that donors can see how far they are from a shelter. Additionally, improving the UI was another further step that we would like to integrate.
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