JioU | Devpost

Inspiration

Our group is very passionate about the ideals of diversity, inclusion and the need to make the world a better place.

We believe that the segregation between the majority and the minority is due to a lack of interaction between those of different backgrounds causing misunderstanding, loss of social cohesion and mistrust.

To alleviate this issue, our group has developed our webapp JioU, which is pronounced as Jio You. Using this webapp, everyone can participate in events and make friends. Groups of individuals from diverse backgrounds yet with common interests will be grouped for events, games and engagements.

JioU is a simple, yet powerful, way to connect with others. Each Jio builds a small community of like-minded yet diverse individuals. Through these interactions, participants will get to know each other better. Even if the differences between the individuals are not immediately resolved, they will get to know one another better. Eventually, our members would be encouraged to help others assimilate into society, while the members who originally felt marginalized/excluded by society would slowly begin to feel accepted and recognized by others.

What it does

Create events for users
Login and Signup
Matchmaking for users with common interests but diverse demographics

User Flow

Landing page
Login page
Signup page

Figma mockup: https://www.figma.com/file/lRDs5fzVHOPZVTG59N6SVr/JioU?node-id=8111%3A546

How we built it

We split the project into frontend and backend
Worked on it in parallel and integrated at the end based on a predetermined API

Challenges we ran into

The grouping algorithm was non-trivial
There are many dependency issues with the various libraries that we wanted to use.

Viability

Cash inflow

Collaboration with sponsors for a discounted package deal and making the difference between the discounted price and the selling price.
Advertising fees