safe ventures

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Inspiration

Due to COVID-19, governments enforced strict travel restrictions that prevented people from traveling for fun across countries. As these policies have been relaxed in the past year, travelers need a new and vibrant community to set off again in their adventures. Our project takes the concerns of minorities into our consideration. Learning that minorities often have concerns about their safety when traveling to unfamiliar places, our project dedicates a specific space where users can communicate minority experiences. We offer tags and keywords that allow users to find these spaces quickly and easily.

What it does

Our project involves an app and a website that allow users to share their travel stories and safety tips with a community of equally adventurous people.

How we built it

Due to time limitations, we used Figma to build a prototype of what our app will look and function like. We also used Javascript, HTML, and CSS to build the website.

Challenges we ran into

Because WHACK is our team’s first hackathon, we ran into multiple problems. We were unfamiliar with Figma, so we had to spend a lot of time learning and navigating the platform. We also encountered problems with building the webpage. There were multiple errors that we ran into while building the application. The application was not able to read images from firebase. This made it difficult for us to display images uploaded by users. We had initially planned to build a mobile app midway into the project. We ran into problems with android studio due to which we had to switch to a web application.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Our significant accomplishments are the prototype and webpage we developed. After hours of work, we made an aesthetically pleasing user interface prototype that is easy to navigate and helpful for users to interact with each other. We are incredibly proud of our ability to provide minorities a place to convene and discuss their personal travel experience. Since it is a place everyone accesses, we not only created a platform for minority travelers to discuss but also provided a place where everyone can go and learn more about the discrimination minorities experience. In a way, it also facilitates understanding between different communities. Our brilliant web page allows users to see our content without downloading our app.

What we learned

While making the app, we learnt a lot about app functionality and the key point flows. We had to think of a logical way to set up the app so that it is user friendly and easy to navigate for anyone. Furthermore, we had to identify key user pain points to target in order to make the app as functional as possible. These pain points include: an easy way to make a post, balance between text and visuals, interactivity as if this were a social media app (likes, comments), as well as how to accentuate safety ratings and features.

What's next for safe ventures

We would love to see this as a real app, with accentuated safety-related features. We ran short on time, but we were also intending on adding a resources page linked to each post based on geographical location. For instance, if you are reading a post about Vietnam, you would also see a Resources tab that would direct you to local enforcement and any other organizations that could provide help if you needed.

Built With

• css
• figma
• html
• javascript