Nannies Nearby

Planning our website design using figma
A view of our actual website home page
Our logo

Inspiration

Parents often find it extremely difficult to find someone to look after their children when they need to work or go out. This problem also disproportionately affects women which allows gender gaps to remain. Not only are they trusting the nanny with their children but also with the house. Therefore you need someone reputable and trustworthy whilst still living nearby. Juggling all these criteria can be a bit of a nightmare but that is where Nannies Nearby comes in!

What it does

Nannies Nearby requires both parents and babysitters to log in in order to keep the site secure and trustworthy. Once logged in, parents can then access a map which has babysitters pinned in their location. If you press on one of those pins you can then access their information e.g. name, location, price per hour, years of experience and a link to their personal profile! Their personal profile has a picture of the babysitter and reviews so that the parents can ascertain whether they think they would be suitable to look after their children!

How we built it

To start we created a mock up of our website using Figma and also developed our colour scheme. We then used Qoom as our coding platform as it allowed us to work together collaboratively! In order to actually create the website we coded it using HTML, CSS, JS and JSON.

To develop the map section, we had to create a spreadsheet and add example details. This was then deployed onto a personal map with locations and embedded into the webpage.

Challenges we ran into

As first-time users of Qoom, there were quite a few bugs we had struggled with but we worked through the different options together. Time was also another challenge, for it limited how long we could spend on debugging our code and restricted additional features we would have liked to add.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're especially proud of how clean the site looks and the embedded map! It took a long time to figure out but now we are extremely happy with it.

What we learnt

We learnt how to communicate effectively as we faced a lot of problems using Qoom as it was our first time. However, we persevered and ended up being able to use the platform extremely well by the end!