"ChariFlicks", Table 14

Flick!

Inspiration

You move to a new city to study and chase your dreams of success. In year 2 you build the next Big Thing and move to California. You are a busy boy/girl, but you want to give to the less fortunate as well. How do you keep up with the changing landscape of altruism around you? You use ChariFlicks, of course. It simplifies the process of giving as far as a simple flick to the right. Just tell ChariFlicks where you are and how you would like to help, and you will be matched to the charity of your dreams.

How we built it

We worked hard, fuelled by KitKats and diet coke.

Challenges we ran into

"We are still running into them", as MP points out, upon being asked. In the beginning the problems mainly had to do with conversion. The idea is, in order to build an altruism dating application, you need a lot of data about the potential matches. So we downloaded the entire database of registered charities in the UK since 1961. Just to mention, they are over 500 000. Before coming up with a way of processing them, we had to extract the information from a format we had never seen before. But perhaps most importantly, THERE IS A LOT OF DATA, and not enough CPU...