longdog Sustainable Clothes Trading + Fast Fashion Awareness

Conscious closets for Earth's longevity!

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Inspiration

We wanted to create a solution that allows individual people to become more sustainable. However, things like taking shorter showers really does not make a large enough impact in comparison to industries. Really, almost anything an individual person does is merely a drop compared to the waves that industry is making. Still, there are two main industries where a single person, if they choose not to participate in them, can make a measurable impact on the environment: the meat and fast fashion industries. After learning about the impact of fast fashion from an episode of the Patriot Act, hosted by Hasan Minhaj, we decided to create a website to help bring awareness to fast fashion and support a community countering it. For the name: why not longdog? We're inspired by GoDaddy's brand strategy.

What it does

Our project has three main goals: raise awareness, gamify sustainability, and create an environmentally conscious community. We start with helping you take stock of what you have in your closet: how many articles of clothing you have, what companies you bought them from, what countries they were made in, what materials make them up and in what percentage. Based on these stats, you will be assigned a sustainability score for your closet. You will also gain points by completing sustainability challenges like upcycling your clothes, buying clothes secondhand, boycotting certain brands, or wearing under 30 garments over a week. You can spend these points on extra entries for clothing giveaways that people post as an more reliable alternative to donating to larger charities that often will throw your clothes into the trash.

How I built it

  • Created a domain on domain.com called "longdog.tech"
  • Used Bootstrap, HTML, and JS to create webpage
  • Graphic design shows our ideal look in comparison to the webpage created
  • Researched and collected lots of data on sustainable companies, materials, and clothes shopping/keeping/disposing habits
  • Used this data to create an algorithm that generates a sustainability score
  • Dug into our closets making data tables of our wardrobe contents

Challenges I ran into

Ah, scope creep, my one true nemesis. Also, creating a website? Never done that before! Shout out to the Sunhacks mentors for giving me some advice on how to go about that.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Learning new web design skills, though there's a long way to go in that area. Also, we love excuses to design aesthetic things. If anything, we hope you enjoy looking at our project!

What I learned

Bootstraps, how to create a website, how long we can stay up for.

What's next for longdog Sustainable Clothes Trading + Fast Fashion Awareness

On the technical side, the next goal would be to produce a functional backend to the website, add all the frontend pages we wanted to and make sure they all flow smoothly together. We would probably have to do more research and get some beta users to tweak the point system and sustainability score algorithm to something a bit more objective.

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