Plasmin 0.1 - Plasma Donor in your Area.

Welcome Message
Need a Donor
Be a Donor
Add New Area

Inspiration

At this Covid-19 Situation, where no effective medicine has yet been discovered, plasma seems to be a name of hope. But it would have been more helpful if people could easily find out about plasma donors around them through messenger bots. From that thought we plan to make this plasmin 0.1.

What it does

At the beginning we have a welcome message, about us, some instructions and two quick reply buttons.

Need A Donor
Want to be a Donor

If someone wants to be a donor, (for which area does he want to be a donor ?, what is his blood group, name, phone number and how long ago he was recovered from Covid-19) the bot takes this information and saves in a Google form.

Then if someone comes looking for a donor, the bot searches donor by ( donor area + blood group ) from the Google sheet and displays the appropriate donor information. If no donor is found according to the requirement, it says "Sorry donor not found" and stores the information.

How we built it

Basically we made this bot by using Chatfuel.I dicovered Chatfuel very usefull and easy to use.than we have to use Integromat to connect our bots to Google sheet. we made JSON API , use charts query language to manege data search.

Challenges we ran into

We were brand new to the chatfule. At first we thought we would make a bot by coding but then we decided to starting with chatfuel. The basic tasks were very easy. The problem started when I went to connect with Google Forms. Will we have a separate form for each area or will it all be in the same form? Can data be collected by filtering from the same form with it? Or will we do hand coding without chatfule? We were very confused. We were able to keep the data in Google Form very easily but we couldn't find a way to read the data, we couldn't do anything even after trying the zipper. Then we started trying at Integromat, there was a lot of trouble with filtering. It takes a little time to master a new technology. So without losing patience, we completed the making of our Plasmin 0.1 bot that night. And the felling of accomplishment was aowsome.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

There are some Android apps where the information of plasma donors is available in the same way but they can't serve as many people as we can with our Facebook Messenger bot. Besides, being free, people feel comfortable finding a solution on Facebook. So we are really proud to think that we can help thousands of people through our bot. We showed our work to the head of our department, who appreciated it very much and said that he would make arrangements to promote it.

What we learned

This was really an awesome experience for us. new technology , had no idea which can be possible by these.we face many challenges and learned how to handle them. Sharing idea and contributions, learning new thing together.Above all this was a good lesson for us to learn teamwork.

What's next for Plasmin 0.1 - Plasma Donor in your Area.

In next ,We want to add a new donor request function considering the needs of the people. where if anyone who didn't find any donor, can request for a donor according to his need. and our bot will deliver this notification to all the donors in that area. So that they can help us find a donor they know. We also have plans to work with telemedicine.