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shelSTAT

Inspiration

While volunteering at Women's Shelter, one of our members had the realization that a lot of women have to go through a tedious process of trying to find emergency shelter during times of crisis. We decided to make the process a little easier for anyone in need of an emergency shelter and other resources.

What it does

Our app provides up-to-date data about the availability of beds (and rooms) in shelters in your community. In addition to availability, you are also able to see if the shelter is unisex, and if they will accommodate children. Shelters will have access the website and add the most recent room or bed counts to the app, ensuring that people do not have to call in to verify availability.

How we built it

MEAN Stack

Challenges we ran into

We had to teach ourselves how to make web-based applications using MEAN from scratch which was extremely tough.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Despite having to pull an all-nighter, we are proud to have finished it.

What we learned

Perseverance pays off, and pretty websites are hard to make.

What's next for shelSTAT

iOS and Android app, and parameterized search.

Built With

Submitted to

McHacks 2017

Created by

I worked on the front end using html and css. I also managed to learn how to use MEAN stack to make our web-based app. It was my first time attending a hackathon and it was definitely a huge learning experience for me.

Jasmine Chahal
I worked on the backend of the application including the database structure, and creating the model. MEAN was new to me, and a great challenge.

Hrishikesh Suresh
I contributed to this project by working on the front-end aspects of the website using my knowledge in HTML and CSS. I was also able to learn about and use MEAN Stack for other aspects of the project.

Rithika Beena Kumary

Updates

Jasmine Chahal started this project — Jan 29, 2017 07:08 AM EST

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