Tell Me About It

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  Our welcome page, where you choose which school you are from so we can direct you to the appropriate feed.

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  The navigation bar between school feeds. More can be added as we develop Tell Me About It further.

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  Input feed for one school.

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  Feed builds up over time, from most recent post to oldest.

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  Empty feed.

Inspiration

Based on recent news and past experiences, we wanted to create an app that would help people feel safe to tell an authority without feeling like they would be mocked or ridiculed socially when they reported it.

What it does

Tell Me About It allows users to anonymously add input into a feed that differs by school.

How we built it

We worked using AppInventor for the first time, so we counted on Googling, tutorials and YouTube to understand the basics.

Challenges we ran into

We had a lot of trouble just figuring out what we could and couldn't do with the program within the given time. What we did when we first came up with the idea was set goals at "Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced" levels to prioritize finishing the basics of the app. We also ran into difficulties using a TinyWebDB, so we weren't able to use it in order to transfer data across devices.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This is our first hackathon, so we were really excited to make anything that even worked because we didn't have a lot of previous experience. Our project ended up meeting all of our basic and intermediate goals, and we are very close to achieving some of our advanced goals.

What we learned

How to use AppInventor!

What's next for Tell Me About It

Hopefully, when we finish, we can work on making the graphics prettier, filtering posts to reduce inappropriate language and hate speech, adding multiple location-specific feeds, and giving people the opportunity to reply, up/downvote posts based on urgency, and create their own anonymous feeds.

Built With

• mit-app-inventor