Nashville Neighbors

What it does

Nashville Neighbors is an Amazon Alexa skill used to present local Nashville area community resource information to users. Users can ask for a list of categories of local community resources. They can also ask for a list of organizations by category as well as details of a specific organization.

What we used

Nashville Neighbors is an Amazon Alexa skill that was built using Node.js on AWS Lambda. The Serverless framework is used to automate the creation of AWS resources. We used the data.nashville.gov API to retrieve data about community resources in Nashville.

Our Inspiration

We love our city. We want to make information about community resources in Nashville easily accessible in order to inform and equip citizens of Nashville. For example, a user may want to know where they can make a food donation in Nashville and not know where to go or who to contact. A social worker may want location information about resources in a certain community. A citizen of Nashville may just need information about the public Nashville community and what's available to them. Nashville Neighbors accomplishes all these things.

Built With

• alexa
• amazon-alexa
• javascript
• lambda
• node.js
• serverless