The problem Virtual Care solves

Our web application solves a common issue faced by the general populace and that is to search for and contact reliable doctors. It helps to connect doctors to the patients even though it is not possible to meet physically in these covid times. With our platform patients can get in touch with doctors and book appointments according to their convenience. We provide additional features like giving the patients a small overview of what their disease could be according to their symptoms so that they can choose the right doctor for themselves. Our search feature allows patients to search a doctor by their specialization and/or name. It also allows the doctors to accept or reject appointments according to their convenience. We have a very easy-to-use interface that helps with the simplicity and effortless navigation for the user. It also has an add-on feature that shows the number of pending appointments the doctors have and also the approved and rejected ones.
Once a patient's appointment is booked we send a notification to the user about it being booked. We send an email notification once the appointment is either accepted or rejected by the doctor and another email, 24 hours before the appointment, as a reminder to both the doctor and the patient.

Challenges we ran into

While building the project we ran into several challenges as individual as well as a team. Some of them were technological while the others were external forces forcing us to slow down in our development process. The hackathon being virtual didn't help with version control co-ordination and power failures across the team reduced our efficiency a lot.In the remote databases that we used, AWS as well crashed. Django migration files stopped working and the power failure did not help at all. Switching databases halfway through and then migrations corrupting really put a toll on us. We replaced the faulty remote database with the default Sqlite database that django provides. For the migrations, we dumped the tables and rebuilt them to deal with it.