Inspiration
The problem statement of the hackathon inspired me. I felt that the best way to help health professionals, considering that there seemed to be a major problem between innovators and healthcare communicating, was to provide that means of communication. This would be beneficial to both innovators and healthcare workers, as now healthcare workers would have a means of contacting the innovators, and innovators would have problems that they could solve readily available to them.
What it does
Allows medical companies to make posts about the problems they have. Has technical innovators looking at the posts and replying to ones they have a solution for. They come to an agreement on working out how to solve the problem, afterwards. This could be used both for large healthcare companies connecting to small vendor companies. Or small healthcare companies connecting with talented young innovators looking to make a project for their resume.
How we built it
We built the entire website from scratch, using html, css, javascript, and python (flask).
Challenges we ran into
Learning html, accidentally have an extra </div> somewhere that makes the whole code stop working (although, html won’t tell you that). We were running low on time towards the end of the hackathon as well, this meant we had to sacrifice features that we heavily wanted to implement. This also meant that there were very many bugs as well as the document did not look up to par.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Teamwork: We are proud of how well we were able to work with each other, both through tools, and also using each others talents efficiently to overall create an efficient design process
- Creativity: We had to think outside of the box in order to come up with a project that we were both satisfied with, and felt that we could make decent progress on.
What we learned
- We learned the importance of time management.
- We learned how to use jinja2 effectively to create efficient websites.
- We learned how to do web design
What's next for FreelanceMed
- Finishing the website implementation:
- getting a server and running online
- making a more advanced messaging system
- create a verification process for tech vendors who’ve completed projects
- Switching to a more scalable database to store information
- Adding encryption to keep peoples information protected.
- Adding a way to integrate the website with git for innovators to easily collaborate on these problems
- Adding a method for payment to allow requesters to pay vendors
- LOTS of bug fixes
- Expanding on all previously implemented features to make sure that they work well
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