It helps people share their experiences, knowledge and needs in a simple way, and anonymously match other people that have similar issues, minimizing the loneliness and impact that social isolation has over their health.
It was very meaningful to us to tackle this problem, cause we all are subjects to the impacts of the social isolation caused by the covid-19 pandemic. We approached it thinking about a digital platform that can simplify the way people share theire stories and experiences fighting covid-19.
We used PHP as our main back-end language, and simple responsive HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript programming, tools that we use daily at our jobs. We are planning to use AWS Transcribe and AWS Comprehend to make our application data-driven and intelligent, and access more data from NASA experiments about astronauts isolation at long-duration expeditions. We had a very tough time trying to find a new and simple idea that could bring people together virtually in a special way, but, in the end, we learned in 48h what we would learn in a year.
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