Green Hack

Web app that generates random challenges to encourage people to have greener habits. It also provides a carbon footprint calculator for vehicles, and has a gaming points system for registered users

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Inspiration

We wanted to do something that is fun to use, an educational mobile app with a gamified component like Duolingo while making the user be more green. We also wanted to inform the user of their car carbon footprint. So in the end, we just merged both idea and made Green Hack

What it does

Green Hack is website that challenges the user to be more green. The Daily Challenges site will give the user like it say daily challenge. Every time the user accomplish a challenge, their level will go out. by increasing their level, they will have a change to be at the top of the leader board. The Carbon Footprint site is to inform the user the amount Co2/km they are putting into the environment when travelling in a vehicle.

How we built it

We decided to split the web development in to front-end and back-end because we are a team of two. We used Pycharm as IDE with Node.js and MongoDB

Challenges we ran into

Even if we had some knowledge working with the Pycharm IDE, it was my first time using Node.js and MongoDB. We ran into some installation problems but is was solved with the help of my teammate. Also, we planned on making this idea into a app but we did not have time to set up all the things needed for a app development. So we chang the idea to a website.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

In 24h, we made a fully functioning website with login feature. We're very proud of the points and level system that we implemented to gamify the challenges: it was a bit tricky but also a fun problem to solve.

What we learned

We learned how to work with MongoDB and Node.js and implement useful features like login and sessions

What's next for Green Hack

The main goal will be to set it up as an android and ios app like we originally planned at the start of the project. Afterwards, we should add more features. For example letting the user create their own list of challenges that they want to do.

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