Inspiration
My website functions a lot like a social media app. However, it brings many people together to do something that'll help the environment.
What it does
Pine provides a platform for people to post environmental events such as, trash pickups, tree planting, and more. Anyone on the website can discover these projects and choose to participate in them. This is a great way to get people to volunteer for the environment. Additionally, hosting an event on Pine doesn't only help the environment in one way, but it also reduces the paper used. Instead of printing hundreds of flyers or sending letters, it's easy to post a project on Pine and have other people discover it online. Therefore, it is an inexpensive and paperless solution to helping the environment.
How we built it
The website is mostly built with Python, HTML, and CSS. The website is hosted on Replit.
Challenges we ran into
The challenge was mostly finishing the website in 24 hours and also being able to keep the website up. Replit's hosting is not the most stable, and that would cause the website crash and refuse to accept connections until the program is stopped and rerun.
What we learned
I learned many ways to code efficiently and how to use frameworks that can help with the process of building the program. For example, I have gotten much more familiar with the Python Flask web framework for building powerful, dynamic webpages quickly and easily.
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