QuitKaro - our idea is to build an online platform to quit the habits like alcohol, smoking, Porn, etc. for Eg: A person who wants to quit smoking will come to this platform and take a pledge to quit smoking with number of days.
The user has to signup using twitter, before taking the pledge. The Pledge can be made public or private.
The idea revolves around 2 things: Quit and Karo. Quit part is the habit which the user wants to quit and Karo is the action he/she has to take. The Karo Part has two actions:
- Conversation: The Platform will give a join hashtag conversation(on twitter) to get help from the community following the same hashtag.
- Distract: If the user feels the need/urge to repeat the habit, he can click on distract me, and a DM from twitter/email to friends to his close buddies will be sent. For eg: the user who feels like smoking will DM/email his friends as : "I feel like smoking! Please distract me" Internally an event will be set as open and the user can then update the status whether the distraction successful or not (just by a thumbs up or down).
We also have a timer for the pledge and the user has to take action on the pledge.
Finally when the user is ready to quit he can go and click "I quit" and fill a feedback form to inspire others who want to quit the same habit. Once the user has quit successfully he becomes a part of the group which will help other users to quit as well. We want this platform to have stories how people quit some bad habits(keeping their anonymity) inspiring others.
We have used ROR, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, Postgres.
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