Disaster Relief Community Platform

full screen UI
mobile UI
create request ui
commenting UI
intial ui design with request collection
A few more collection ideas

Inspiration

The recent natural disasters in California and North Carolina

What it does

Provides an interactive map where users can post request for relief at a location of their choosing. These requests are displayed to others on the map where they can view details about the request.

These requests fall into categories Food, Shelter, and Medical, and have links to sites such as go fund me for personal requests or American Red Cross for disaster relief funds.

The power of this app comes from enabling users to directly support members of their community in times of need.

Challenges we ran into

Hosting Angular frontend
Using a non-relational database with Django

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Learning new technologies such as Django and leaflet.js
Competing in a multi-day hackathon for the first time
Hosting our first application

What we learned

The importance of being able to build and host your application from the start and throughout a hackathon
Find the right technology for the job instead of trying to hack n slash a technology to fit your needs (using base django as a restapi for a non-relational db)

What's next for the Disaster Relief Community Platform

Expanding user customizability by adding the different relief requests to a watchlist and giving suggestions for different requests based on proximity and popularity.