Rendezvous

Rendezvous with your neighbors to share resources and make a difference—together, we can weather any storm!

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In the wake of natural disasters, every second counts. Rendezvous is a community-driven mobile app designed to streamline disaster relief efforts. It connects those in need with those who can help through a dynamic feed of updates and news, a page for hosting donation drives, and a dedicated space for exchanging supplies—all for free. With a user-friendly interface and real-time notifications, Rendezvous empowers communities to come together and make a meaningful impact when it matters most.

Pages and Features

Main Page

Displays a feed of public posts from other users and officials. Official news would be pinned up top for emphasis, showing major weather updates and other related news. Users can post questions they may have, advice they want to offer, or other relevant conversations.

Giving

Allows users to host donation drives and fundraisers directly in the app. Donation drives would include drop-off addresses, that when pressed will direct the user to a separate maps app. It would also show a countdown of how many days the user has left to drop off items before they are collected. Users are also able to host fundraisers in the app that will allow other users to donate in the app instead of going to a third-party application.

Offer

Another forum page specifically for users to post requests for supplies that they need or supplies they have to give away. All exchanges will be for free.

Notifications

Displays user's notifications including any messages for offers, updates from fundraisers or donations that they supported, important weather updates, or updates from any posts that they watched.

Other

User profile page, settings

Background

After the recent tragedies from Hurricane Helene in Western NC, affecting people we know personally, we were motivated to make this app to provide direct access to help. The app is for everyone, but two main user groups were in mind: people who need help and people who can help.

Challenges we ran into

Time! We had a lot of goals and wants for this project but with such little time, we could really only implement the basics of the app.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We spent a good chunk of time trying to come up with ideas- some of them were too ambitious for 24 hours while some of them we thought were too simple. So, we are really proud of the idea we came up with! It's relevant to recent events and foreseeable future natural disasters, as well as a good way to connect the community and build compassion.

What we learned

We learned more about how to use React Native and that we need better time management.

What's next for Rendezvous

We would add functionality, we created the basic framework of the app with ideas of what each page would do, so they mostly have basic functionality of being able to navigate to them and pressing a couple of buttons. We would also like to add the feature of being able to donate directly in the app instead of being sent to a third-party app. Additionally, we created this app with mostly hurricanes in mind, since that is what we are mostly experiencing in North Carolina. In future iterations, we would consider other natural disasters and how our app can be updated to include those.

Tech Stack

  • React Native using Expo
  • PostgreSQL
  • Nginx
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Figma
  • Google Maps API
  • Inspiration: Nextdoor, Facebook, Instagram, Mealtrain, Ring # Credits Built by Eddie Falco and Trinity Tran Created for HackNC 2024 hackathon hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Major League Hacking
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