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I could still see small hotspots being a useful way of spreading knowledge about the project. You could then also make in window stickers for businesses that offer the service to also promote it.
Yeah good idea about the window stickers! I've passed that on to the PM.
Main dev on the project here (I work for rea-group.com who run www.realestate.com.au, but they've given me a years secondment to the project). Back in 2013 a team at our hackday implemented the precursor to this app, and the leadership team were super impressed. It's been amazing working so closely with the sector (we meet/do user testing with representatives from lots of organisations). This is my first project with…
Well done on the project from another Aussie dev! Agreed on React/ES7 -- absolutely amazing for rich-app development. Unrelated, but REAXML has taken years off my life ;)
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Which city?
Wellington, New Zealand.
I love this idea. Unfortunately, everything I tried gave me: Sorry, I couldn't do this search. Could not find a location matching "Nashville, Tennessee" I'm.. so proud. :-/ One more reason (as if I need more) to be thankful I do at least have a roof over my head.
Are there any plans to expand the apps reach beyond Australia, or is there any alternative for the US?
In the US there are a couple different groups working on similar projects. http://www.helpsteps.com is mainly in the Boston area http://www.auntbertha.com is based out of Austin Http://www.healthify.us is another one. There's also an open source project called Ohana that provides an open directory for community resources and services as well as API for people to deploy this sort of idea in their own community. http:/…
Great idea, but one suggestion would be to make the site as light as humanly possible. Homeless people probably don't have stable or fast connections. Every kilobyte counts. This file is 66KB out of the total 137KB: https://cloud.typography.com/7948374/730248/css/fonts.css - I would remove it and just use a: font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;
Idea: Put free WiFi hotspots in homeless areas (SSID: AskIzzy) that go directly to (and are limited to) your site when the browser launches. Remember that people often have phones but are out of data/minutes when they need help the most.
Great idea, but -- why limit it to one site? If bandwidth is the concern, I'd still suggest making available a small suite of sites of special interest to the homeless.