TPink Built by Us Made for You

Inspiration

Growing up with a divorced mother.

What it does

Provides insight into pink tax and resources to fight back the phenomenon

How we built it

Coded the website with Virtual Studio. Attempted to add a Chrome Extension coded with HTML to provide a way for people to donate money to give back to organizations who help low income women. The extension would work in a way that after every purchase made, such as buying deodorant or a pair of shoes online, it will have a pop up asking if the customer wants to round up their total to a whole number even if it's just by a few cents to fight the pink tax.

Challenges we ran into

We had never built a website, so we ran into a lot of problems as we did not know how to make it, but that is the fun part about a Hackathon, learning new things. We also struggled with Github.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that we took initiative to develop an idea to help with a problem women face, even if it's just informing people about what pink tax is. The idea of prompting people with rounding up their total to a whole number as a way to give back to foundations and organizations who focus on the issue of women having to spend more money on the same products men pay less.

What we learned

We learned that having an extension that allows for donations is not the easiest to implement. We also understood that to make a website flow and not have errors, you need to dedicate a hefty amount of time.

What's next for TPink

The next steps for TPink will be to make the website active, allowing users to visit it from their own device. Following that, we need to implement the extension and to be functional, afterwards looking into foundations who help out women who are in lower income brackets.