openhacks-shareforcare

Connecting basic necessities with the one who needs it in a single post.

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Share for Care

An OpenHack 2020 hackathon project.

Background

A couple weeks ago I read a news on the Internet, a family was found in a barn in the middle of nowhere starving to their bones. It was stated on the news that they cannot afford any food since they do not have any money left after being laid off from work because of COVID-19 restrictions and they got no one to ask for. This event got me thinking that we have to find a way of sharing that is efficient.

Intro

Share for Care is a website created for OpenHack hackathon 2020. The vision of the creator is to make an application that can help people that lack basic necessities to meet with the people that have and willing to give them, especially in the current COVID-19 situation. This application will eliminate 'the-man-in-the-middle', making the process faster and more effective.

Hacking Process

The application is made in the form of a website. The first thing that I did was to configure the environment and the framework that I am using, which is Django. After the initialization, I laid out the business logic behind the application using Django's Model, Template, View. I parallelize my work then also began to work on the frontend while integrating it with the backend on-the-go. The last thing to do was to prepare for deployment and push the application to Heroku.

There was only a handful of problem that I encountered, since I made the application as simple as it can be. Some of the issue were time management and integrating a new library that I have not tried yet.

Tech Stack

Languages

  1. Python
  2. HTML
  3. CSS
  4. JavaScript

Framework/Library

  1. Django
  2. Bootstrap
  3. JQuery
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