The problem DonorFu solves

The inspiration for this idea came when we had need of blood for our friend. We found so many groups on facebook distributed over different areas. Some groups were highly active and thus cluttered with requests that did not correspond to the location targeted by the group. Others were dormant and requests were unanswered. We got into thinking there should be a solution to manage these groups and match potential donors with specific posts.

DonorFu is a Artificial Intelligence bot leveraging platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, Voice Call and SMS. It access posts on groups provided by their admins to match posts with registered potential donors.

Group admins log in and add specific groups whose posts are then processed and matched with donors for sending them notifications in messenger itself. The donors can follow the link to the post in the notification to declare their willingness to donate. Additionally, they can check their eligibility before contacting the poster. The eligibility check is just a basic set of questions and has no association with proper checkups done on site before donation.

Challenges we ran into

We faced many challenges while building this which made our journey interesting.

1. We learned to build a complex manual facebook login flow along with account linking for the messenger.
2. Another challenge was using Facebook test users with Messenger bot as there is no clear way to add the bot to a page created by test user