UGood?: Your Quick Exit Strategy
Have you ever been on a bad date and needed an excuse to escape? Gone are the days where you have to rely on your friend to make up an excuse for you to leave, now there's UGood: your quick exit strategy. Just discreetly trigger the app, wait a minute, and surprise! You suddenly have an incoming text from your "friend" saying that they're having a family emergency and need your help immediately, giving you the perfect excuse to leave. Don't think it seems real enough? You can respond to the text and get more messages, making it seem like an authentic cry for help. This app hopefully can help users escape situations where they feel uncomfortable or unsafe, and also provides resources for learning more about human trafficking, safe dating tips, and resources for survivors of sexual assult. In the future, we hope to be able to use data collected from the user through text to send information to police in an emergency.
My group and I created this app for the TechTogether Boston Hackathon 2020. We originally started coding the frontend in Ionic since we wanted it to be a native app, but quickly realized that we would need more time to make that a reality. We switched over to coding the app in React for demo purposes and made it mobile-first, so if you're viewing it in the browser, please switch your browser to mobile view. Going forward, we will be continuing to work on the app and transferring it over to React Native so that we can hopefully make it into a working mobile app.
This app is currently still under construction... come back later to test it out and see updates!
Project Info :
- Client :
- TechTogether Boston 2020 Hackathon
- Category :
- Fullstack Application
- Date :
- February 2020
- Live Website :
- Click here
- Front-end Github Repo :
- Click here
- Back-end Github Repo :
- Click here
- Technologies Used :
- React, JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails, Twilio
