ReConnect

Work From Home Team 5

Overview

Mental health has been a ongoing 21st century problem. Due to the recent pandemic and economic shut down demands for mental health applications have risen 30%. Now with tech companies moving to work from home and many people not having the proper social interaction and work-life balance, mental health has taken its toll. Our team has worked hard to come up with a solution to help aid people in their professional lives.

ReConnect is a mental heath tracking application that can help connect employees and employers. Our product is a web based survey that uses researched backed questions to help employers find out how their employers are doing. With this data employers can help create a better work environments.

Since a lot of these tech companies are working remotely, we have developed a go-to-market strategy that focuses on email/online marketing. Sales are done remotely online. See what we have built below.

Team Members

Nathaniel Dray(Project Manager, Senior Business @ PFW)

Nathaniel was in charge of scheduling all team meetings. He communicated the weekly objectives and goals during meetings and helped keep the team on track. Nathaniel also put together the business documents with the help of his team members. He also put together the video with the help of the team.

Jordan Massey(Graphic Designer, Sophmore Mechanical Engineer @ Rose-Hulman)

Jordan was in charge of the graphic design. His work was developing the business documents, researching mental help, talking with professionals, and completing team work. He also developed the ReConnect logo and brand name.

Jonathan Moyers(Web Developer, Junior Computer Science @ Rose-Hulman)

Jonathan worked on the back end connectivity of the website and managed the database. He was in charge of integrating the data into the webpages and managing the hosting of the website.

Rachelle McCoy (Marketer, Sophomore Marketing @ Purdue University)

Rachelle had contributed to the business side of things by helping with business documents and conducting research where needed.

Jacob Whitcomb(Web Designer, Senior IT @ Ball State)

Jacob had helped with designing the front end of the website and getting it to look nice. He also got the e-mail code (the document to be sent) written.

How did you decide on this customer segment, problem, and solution?

We worked with our coaches to identify a problem that arises with working from home. At first we wanted to do something that had to do with tracking productivity, but after researching we thought we could do something more impactful. Which lead us down the path of mental health. Tech companies are a huge market that has been transitioning to work from home and we thought that would be a perfect place to start. After deciding where we wanted to look, then came the solution idealization. We still wanted to do something with tracking and that thought process lead us to building a survey based application that can keep track of mental health.

How did your team build and iterate on the solution?

After building a working interface, we needed some questions that would collect data. We researched questions that could help with understanding mental health. But after a couple test periods the questions seemed dull or nonproductive. So one of our team members got in contact with a psychiatrist to help develop some questions. Which helped build a solid foundation of data acquisition.

After we created that improvement we needed to improve out interface. At first with simple questions we allowed for the user to check multiple boxes to fit how they felt. But as the questions became more defined we no longer needed that functionality. So we went a different direction in data acquisition with more solid one answer responses.

Key Metrics

Product Development

3 Interviews conducted

5 beta testers

Technical Architecture

The database is structured as a nested JSON object and can be accessed similarly to a file system. Currently only the responses are being tracked as no user authentication was implemented. The deepest nested file looks as follows: responses\number\values.

The web architecture is: the client is HTML and Javascript, the server is hosted using Google's Firebase API, and the database is Javascript.

Key Tools, Libraries, and Frameworks

The website was coded using HTML for the framework and Javascript to connect to the database. Javascript was necessary as it's the only way to connect to Google Firebase through a website coded in HTML. The database used was Google's Firebase Realtime Database, which was chosen because it's freely available and easily integrated into any given website. The website was hosted using Firebase's free hosting service.

If you had another 5 weeks to work on this, what would you do next?

First, we'd implement user authentication so that multiple users can sign up and see data related to only their account. We'd also implement some solution to break down the information into more specific data, with support for sorting by department for large companies. We'd also use graphics to display the data rather than simply text, and we'd be able to display data over time as people responded weekly.

We think we would like to interview more people in the market segment, to gain more confidence in our solution. 10 more interviews with potential customers would be beneficial. Also, develop our marketing plan in more depth. Like creating our graphics and our informative email basis.