TaskMe

App Prototype

Inspiration

The inspiration for this application came from personal experiences of assisting in recovery efforts in the communities affected by hurricanes in Florida. One of the biggest problems that these organizations face is the influx of volunteers following a disaster. In order to fully mobilize and properly manage the community-based response, volunteer events require strategic planning and determining the needs of these communities and local hosting capacity before assigning volunteers for response efforts. However, in the case of unexpected emergencies and natural disasters, volunteers are needed immediately to assist those affected. Our app proposes a simple but practical solution for assigning tasks to volunteers during these high impact recovery periods.

Our Approach

An immediate digital response via our progressive web application
On-site access codes for volunteers to select their desired tasks
Allow Coordinators to keep track of the number of volunteers working on each task and create new tasks if necessary

How we built it

Our project was built by:

Figma to design an interactive prototype
React for the frontend development
Microsoft Azure for the backend development

Challenges we ran into

It was extremely difficult making a working app in 36 hours. Furthermore, none of us were extremely comfortable using React and we ran into many errors along the way.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We are extremely proud to be able to execute our idea and we believe that the app can make a real difference in disaster responses in the future.

What I learned

We pushed ourselves out of our comfort zones and learned how to use programs that none of us were really familiar with. It was our first time working with React as well as Microsoft Azure.