Hand.

A platform for carers to seek support, advice and meetups in their local and surrounding area

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Inspiration

Often time carers can find themselves isolated or unsure where to seek help from. Unexpected situations can lead to people becoming carers either full time or part-time and at any age. We wanted to offer ways to help alleviate the isolation and difficulty that comes with being a carer by offering them a support network.

What it does

For Charities

To offer their services to the widest audience and be a trusted source of information to carers

For Carers

  • Smart search people and charities for advice
  • Smart search for meetups nearby specific to your situation
  • Offer your help and knowledge to other carers, building a community
  • Ability to initiate SMS conversations with charities or other carers

How we built it

React frontend with a node backend. We developed special search strategies specific to each kind of search (looking or help/advice/meetups...), each one prioritising a set of criteria developed with people in mind Used twilio for the SMS features

Challenges we ran into

Technically a 5 man team, literally a 2 man team

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Search strategies Look of website

What we learned

Stateless functional components rather quickly become stateful components due to unforeseen circumstances

What's next for Hand.

Add the ability for users to sign up and create meetups. Refine the search strategies further.

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