Inspiration
Coming from India, "period" is taboo for most people, even for the educated ones. It was always in our mind to take some steps towards making it a socially and culturally acceptable topic. Also, it is hard to find apps related to periods in native Indian languages.
What it does
It has features like -
- Finding your period buddies i.e. your friends who have their periods with you. Your buddies would be the only ones with whom we'll share your data, ie with your approval.
- Know how to support someone during their periods, could be your significant other, best friends or anyone you want
How we built it
We used Firebase for backend and native android and react (web) as front end.
Challenges we ran into
- Getting a female perspective
- Finding a way to hold our user's personal data securely.
- Getting trustable resources regarding periods
- Integrating firebase with both android and react
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Creating a complete solution with backend, android, and web.
- Created something to give back to the community
What we learned
- As men, it's impossible to understand what periods feel like.
- How to integrate firebase with frontend and use firestore database
What's next for Period Buddy
- First to complete the frontend and backend integration
- Add support for our native languages like Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Bengali, Panjabi, etc
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