Donate4Fun

Redeeming points for rewards
Visualization of nearby charities
Searching for charities to donate to
Gamification: Badges rewarded to user
Donations made by user
Homepage
Donation details and visualization of charity and user on a map

Inspiration

We noticed that apps in the fields of fitness, education, social media, etc., use gamification to keep people engaged with the platform. These tricks include tracking points, maintaining leaderboards, and sending rewards. We thought this sort of gamification could be an asset to society if used to increase engagement in a charity app.

What it does

Our app lets users donate to charities in their area and rewards them with points, badges, and feedback. Users get points based on the amount of items donated, and receive extra points for dropping off the items themselves. They can redeem the points for real life rewards.

How we built it

We used Node.js for the backend, Pugjs for the frontend, and mongoDB as our database. We used leaflet framework for plotting and visualizing geospatial data

Challenges we ran into

Challenged for us included integrating different modules of the app together, coming up with a plan for the supply chain process, and integrating the maps API into our app.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of the fact that we created an app for potential to be used for good.

What we learned

We learned that having a good architecture and design for the app at the beginning is very important. Further, collaboration is necessary to create something like this in a short time.

What's next for Donate4Fun

The next steps are adding more gamification features, adding more categories of donations, and better modes of communication between the charities and users.