ImpactHive revolutionizes impact investing by allowing you to set meaningful goals like education equity and carbon footprint reduction. Users are able to track their progress with intuitive dashboards, discover and connect with impactful organizations, and stay motivated through gamification elements. Invest with impact and watch your positive influence grow!
- User authentication: username, email, password
- Organization search: being able to find organizations to invest in by search; provide description of the organization
- Explore Feature: discover new features
- Dashboard: have dashboards to see progress in terms of how they’re achieving their goals (graphs)
- Games/Incentives: gamification elements to motivate users to invest in social causes (streaks, badges, competitions, boss event)
- Bee Hive: track growth
- Suggestions: recommend projects to users based on their interests, past investments, and goals
- Community groups based on interests
- Messaging: reach out to the organizations
- Being able to invest through the app itself and not reaching out to the investor and updating the information manually (regarding their investment)
- Chatbot to ask questions
- Educational material, resources, etc.
- Quizzes (relate to the game/incentive components)
Week 1
- Meet team
- Align on goals for project
- Decide frontend/backend teams
- Finalize tech stack
- Set up environment
Week 2
- User flow/figure out creative vision
- Frontend:
- Create wireframes for UI
- Design logo
- Decide on color palette
- Get feedback from outside opinions, and fix wireframes accordingly
- Backend:
- Set up user authentication for login and registration pages
Week 3
- Frontend:
- Receive feedback for UI and finalize it
- Start coding the following pages: home, login, registration, and dashboard
- Backend:
- Plan database design for users, organizations, investments, and gamification elements
Week 4
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Frontend:
- Aim to finish about 75% of the pages
- Continue coding remaining pages (organization search, project recommendations)
- Add elements of gamification (progress bars, badges)
- Aim to finish about 75% of the pages
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Backend:
- Fully integrate user authentifcation functionality with frontend
- Begin working on search functionality for finding organizations and storing interactions in the database
Week 5
- Frontend:
- Finish coding the pages
- Backend:
- Implement AI-driven project recommendations based on user goals and past investments
Week 6/7
- Frontend:
- MVP should be complete
- Help backend with integration
- Start planning on stretch goals
- Backend:
- Fully finish integrating
Week 8
- Frontend:
- Clean up frontend
- Presentation slides and script
- Backend:
- Complete integration
- Presentation script
Week 9/10
- Frontend/Backend:
- Finishing touches on everything!
- Presentation prep :)
- Y'ALL GOT THIS !!!! WOOHOO
- Wireframing: Figma
- IDE: Android Studio
- Frontend: React Native
- For building a responsive and dynamic user interface
- Backend: Node.js
- For building scalable applications
- Database: MongoDB
- For a flexible, document-oriented database
General
- Success in ACM Projects
- Installing Android Studio: Windows / iOS
- API Crash Course w/ timestamps
- GitHub Cheat Sheet #1
- GitHub Cheat Sheet #2
Front-end
Back-end
- Developers: Ishita Saran (Full-Stack with Back-end Focus), Ifrah Zainab (Full-Stack), Eric Tran (Frontend), Phuc Tran (Backend), Aidan Valva (Frontend)
- Project Manager: Avanthi Reddy
- Industry Mentor: Linh Ly