Towards Need

A Platform to Connect Front-line Health Care Workers With Community Members to help Health Care Workers to donate them critically Needed PPE during Covid-19 Crisis

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Inspiration

We hear everyday how health care workers are risking their lives to save patients effected with Covid-19, inspired by the selfless dedication of the front-line healthcare workers who are fighting this battle on behalf of the rest of us.

What it does

Towards Need is a web-based platform that connects healthcare workers who need PPE and any other goods and services with members of the community willing to donate directly to them. The site is very simple for both sides and contains signIn/Register,listing, search,filtering,posting a requirement , Notifications and messaging functionality.

How I built it

Frontend: Angular 9,Angular Material

Backend: Firebase, Google Places API, Google Geo Coding API, Google Maps API

Used FormSpree for messaging functionality.

Challenges I ran into

Getting feedback from healthcare providers and community members in order to design the Product in a manner that is easy to use and deliver the most .

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I was able to do a short survey and understand the requirements and build a prototype that can make a huge impact .

What I learned

Health care workers are facing challenges every day with the facilities provided to them , In research i also found that donations are not directly getting to them its very complicated .Its needed to support the front line workers at large scale from community members.

What's next for Towards Need

Some future ideas we have are as follows:

1.Scaling: As app gets ready for the production as number of hits gets increase to site that can be handled by caching db queries and putting a load balancer using ELB on AWS.

2.Features:As web app moves to more enterprise level architecture ,features like collecting health care worker medical center location and filtering data to show on map limited to a nearby area using Google Distance matrix API and sending notifications whenever there is donor have posted in nearby area and vice-versa and having a social sharing feature can even more help the health care workers .

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