I would like to hear some thoughts about an App that is related to COVID-19 Communications.
I'm thinking about an App that helps to connect those people who need help (Buying groceries, Take the dog out, Get medicine, Just someone to talk) with those people who like to help.
The first interaction would be with a text bot(via SMS, WhatsApp...) where the people specify some general information (What do you need?, Where do you live?, What do you want to help with?)
and the app would match and connect these people.
My idea is to connect the people who are in need in for support (Over 65 y/o, chronic illness, not feeling well, immune deficiency...) with those people who can support (young, healthy).
The idea of the referenced post is to connect consumers with shopkeepers. I think that both ideas could complement each other well
One update/adjustment that could work could be instead of "people who like to help" be replaced by same people that needs help, but in the following way:
Assuming that you're planning to buy some things on the store (this will act as "people who wants to help"), let's say for tonight; you post the info to the bot, for example: "will go to store ABC at 9 PM". This information will be stored: source location (could be extracted from the sender), target location (store) and store/place name.
Someone else, would need to buy something (not needed to be from an specific store/place) and could post or send a message to the bot, something like: "I need to buy [something] for today". From here, the information that could be extracted would be source location (from the sender) and the item that she/he needs.
The backend process would match: given the route for the people that are planning to go somewhere with the people that is near to this route and needs something (above bullet).
I don't doubt that there are many people that really wants to help each other, but I think there could be more people that actually are planning to go somewhere and I think they could take that route to help others.
I would like to hear some thoughts about an App that is related to COVID-19 Communications.
I'm thinking about an App that helps to connect those people who need help (Buying groceries, Take the dog out, Get medicine, Just someone to talk) with those people who like to help.
The first interaction would be with a text bot(via SMS, WhatsApp...) where the people specify some general information (What do you need?, Where do you live?, What do you want to help with?)
and the app would match and connect these people.
What do you think?
I think it sounds like this post dev.to/lakshyabatman/twiliohackath...
No, I don't think it does!
My idea is to connect the people who are in need in for support (Over 65 y/o, chronic illness, not feeling well, immune deficiency...) with those people who can support (young, healthy).
The idea of the referenced post is to connect consumers with shopkeepers. I think that both ideas could complement each other well
I think sounds good.
One update/adjustment that could work could be instead of "people who like to help" be replaced by same people that needs help, but in the following way:
I don't doubt that there are many people that really wants to help each other, but I think there could be more people that actually are planning to go somewhere and I think they could take that route to help others.
That's a good idea! I think both of our ideas could coexist in the app