poli

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Inspiration

I, Akosua, noticed that a lot of politics happen on Twitter, but it's rather unregulated and can be flooded with memes and the like. There needed to be a place solely for politics. Something productive. During such times of a polarized political climate with protests, increasing youth engagement, the time to vote, and point to now fulfill our civic responsibility in the democratic process, we need a place to meet and talk.

What it does

It's a digital democratic civic engagement platform made By The People, For the People. It implements (and attempts to implement) features such as a current bill & voting section (to see how the public's interests lies against our government's, a legislator lookup based on zipcode, an election calendar, a political alignment quiz, a news collection, and the latest C-Span viewing.

How I built it

We used Bubble.io, HTML5, CongressAPI, and BubbleAPI.

Challenges I ran into

Due to the absence of Bubble.io support, I couldn't collaborate on the features together for a whole day. This put us behind 24+ hours. Upon receiving access to collaborate, there was constant freezing and we had to revert to a saved version, putting us behind in work. As it was a remote assignment, so getting in touch with each other was extremely difficult. We were even apart for 13+ hours and had disrupted internet service throughout.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

This was definitely a project of firsts. This was my first time using Bubble.io, so there was a "steep" learning curve.

What I learned

How to use Bubble.io. The complexities of API. I couldn't get the data to input correctly due to my unfamiliarity with Bubble.io and APIs in general.

What's next for Poli

The possibilities are endless! We intend to add features that:

• allow registered voters to vote on the page (decided that this need effective security)
• provide a twitter feed from representatives on the bill
• give a structured forum format that requires bill topic, political alignment, concerns, expectation, appeal, and citations
• provide lobby & organization accounts which would have a different dashboard and abilities than individuals

Built With

• bubble.io
• bubbleapi
• congressapi