Let’s Make It

‘Let’s Make It’ is not only an idea but also a social experiment to connect ambitious sustainable development goals with small daily actions and ultimately create a transformative force.

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Inspiration

It was inspired by many things, the Sustainable Development Goals, Kickstarter, A World—an app to help you adopt habits that help the environment.

What it does

It wants to do just one thing, and that is how to connect the ambitious and a little bit abstract UN Sustainable Development Goals to our everyday lives. It encourages us to take good action on the one hand, and brings together our actions to leverage greater power—charitable projects from corporations or organisations. So how to do it? Firstly, the ‘Let’s Make It’ website posts a new mission every day, which requires a certain number of people, say 10000, to complete and report to it within the day, and if this is achieved, a company or foundation will make a charitable donation or complete a charitable project. If the mission fails, nothing happens and the next day a new mission appears on the site. When the charitable project is completed, a photo will be posted on the background wall as the feedback.

How we built it

  1. Brainstorming, assessing the feasibility and deciding on our ideas.
  2. Website flowchart and UI design.
  3. Try to build the back-end through PHP, Django.
  4. Build the front-end through HTML, CSS (with Tailwind) and JavaScript.
  5. Deploy the webpage with the help of Domain.com and Netlify.

Challenges we ran into

  1. The design idea making the webpage more related to people’s daily routine
  2. The mechanism arising participants’ sense of community belonging
  3. Lack of the familiarity of coding, causing too much time on self-tutorial

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We have proudly accomplished the front-end, the corresponding database in this given short time period and our lack of practical coding experience.

What we learned

The biggest take-way for us would be the how to guide the brainstorming results to a practical and viable techinical solution, besides that, team-collaboration and divide-and-conquer are what we are most impressed with.

What's next for Let’s Make It

The natural way for our project would be the complete integration of back-end and front-end, including the database, the daily update, chasing every user to see if they have ‘checked’ the to-do based on Cookies, and finally, relevant ethical research.

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