Community Organizer

A simple yet effective method for getting members of a community involved in local affairs.

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Inspiration

  • Recently, in my town, we had an issue where government finical mismanagement caused taxes to rise for all residents
  • Residents took to certain platforms to complain, but these "Community" applications do not allow political discussion
  • My application aims to allow users to share ideas for getting involved in local government
  • It is not limited to this as they may share anything on the platform

What it does

  • It is meant to allow for members of a certain community to take action together
  • It does not restrict political action encouraging users to get involved in local politics something other "neighborhood" applications do not offer
  • Uses AI to improve the readability of user entries

How we built it

  • Using Atlas Mongdb for the database
  • Backend created in python with fastapi
  • Frontend created in react alongside the standard js, html, css
  • Openai api integration using the text processing model davinci-3.5
  • Used pymongo to intearact with the database in python

Challenges we ran into

  • I found myself in the planning stage of this app for quite long
  • Over complicated everything in the beginning
  • Struggled with getting the backend understand data sent from the frontend and vice versa

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • My second complete web app
  • Improvement on my past projects
  • Able to sort users into certain communities and display user-generated data

What we learned

  • Became far more proficient in React, js, html and css
  • Became far more proficent in the use of MongoDB
  • Learned Fastapi
  • Used Routing to have the application extend beyond a single page
  • Integrating openai models
  • Improved my UI design
  • Most importantly improved time management skills as I was able to come up with and complete the project in a limited time frame

What's next for Community Organizer

  • Of course will expand the project to be more interactive and allow it to function similar to a social media application
  • But before that I will make some adjustments
  • Adding an SQL database as progressing further will result in a large amount of data that must be linked
  • Transitioning to Django as it would provide more effective tools to manage the backend of my application
  • Make the UI more interactive and visually appealing

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