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Refill

An interactive web application aimed at promoting sustainable development principles.

Created on 3rd September 2021

R

Refill

An interactive web application aimed at promoting sustainable development principles.

The problem Refill solves

Description

Sustainable development is a term we often hear. What does it really mean? This is the type of development that satisfies the needs of the present, while making sure that future generations will still be able to satisfy their needs. Refill has been developed addressing this. This application provides users with access to a community and the ability to share their views. With Refill, we are looking forward to utilizing the funds collected for accomplishing the goals of sustainable development.

What's the problem?

Almost everyone understands the need to grow their economies, but not everyone realizes the negative effects unbalanced economic growth can have on the environment. It is time to change this by looking at the world differently, and sustainable development goals will help us do that. The big picture is to make everyone's lives better and achieve everything together. Details, however, are crucial. Both lifestyles and economies need to grow, so we wish both to prosper. New innovative technologies should be developed without causing harm to the environment. Regardless of where we live, everyone needs access to healthy food. We also want clean drinking water and sanitation, free education and much more in the next ten years. Through our application, we are concerned and have a vision to uplift these sections.

How can this project help?

By using Refill, users will be able to connect with like-minded individuals who are committed to sustainable development. They can donate money to support the different campaigns we will conduct to meet the needs of the people. We believe that something big can be achieved starting with small steps. In future, we aim to improve the application to facilitate collaboration with social workers and NGOs in sessions and through special projects. Nonetheless, so far, it is incredibly powerful and easy to use in creating significant change.

Challenges we ran into

Here are some of the challenges we faced:

  • The first hurdle we had to overcome was design elements for the app and making the app responsive. A great deal of effort and dedication from our team members enabled us to create a responsive web application.

  • Due to the limited time, we decided to focus on one basic feature to meet one of the goals of our application. Since it was our first hackathon, there was a lot to accomplish.

  • The synchronization of work was also a problem, but we created workspaces and communicated a lot to resolve it.

  • During deployment in Heroku, we encountered a problem with the blog page loading slowly. However, by fixing small bugs we were also able to achieve this.

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