OurWoes

OurWoes is a website where rural community leaders can voice their concerns to the general public on issues affecting them that may be out of their control even without internet connection.

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Inspiration

The lack of capacity to voice concerns to one's greater community.

What it does

Allows for those without internet to send their woes to the internet via sms. Specifically targeting rural areas with no internet connection but still some cellular connection.

How we built it

React for front end, MySQL database to house messages, node.js and twilio api to handle backend and getting the messages

Challenges we ran into

  • Getting messages from twilio into the mySQL database
  • duplication of database entries

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Making a semi working website that actually stores and shows the messages sent to our specified phone number.

What we learned

  • What a backend is
  • What a frontend is
  • How to connect the two
  • What a database is
  • How to make and store information in a database then display it on the front end

What's next for OurWoes

  • Rigorous clean up on code
  • Firebase hosting
  • Message filtering
  • Some kind of message like and share feature
  • possibly including chatGPT to translate future messages that might not be in english and format them in a way for more people to understand.
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