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Re: Offer HN: I'll build a free app for a non profit

#11
Hi There,

I would love to schedule a call with you.

My background, I've been working as a software engineering professional for about 20 years. A few years ago I started volunteering and now sit on the board of Savage Jazz Dance Company (a non-profit offering dance training to underprivileged youth in Oakland). I basically manage all of their technical needs. I rebuilt their website, create a Salesforce account, setup Patreon, etc.

I've also experimented with free app building services for other groups I see value in with out-dated technology. Would be happy to share my learnings from this.

I'm working on a new project myself, designed to run as a non-profit, to replace formal education, recruiting and bootcamps with a new model of knowledge training and knowledge work. It is called 'Bloomguild'.

Bloomguild takes an old approach to knowledge work (apprenticeships in guilds) with cutting edge technology (quantified-self, confidence-based repetition) in a new market framework. Apprentices are paid from the beginning, contribute to the creation of products which have value, and spend time doing project-based learning, as well as topic based learning each session.

More information here: https://app.slidebean.com/p/yHMZfkKzOq/BloomGuild

My contact details are in my profile.

-Denali

Re: Offer HN: I'll build a free app for a non profit

#12
You might have a look at Open Food Facts (https://world.openfoodfacts.org and https://world.openfoodfacts.org/discover https://world.openfoodfacts.org/contribute ). Crowdsourced Wikipedia for food. We already have apps (Cordova) and we're doing efforts to redevelop in native on each platform (all is volunteer word).

We've long wanted to create a small game/gamification app to have people make more complex contributions than taking pictures.

pierre at openfoodfacts dot org

Re: Offer HN: I'll build a free app for a non profit

#13

You might have a look at Open Food Facts ( https://world.openfoodfacts.org and https://world.openfoodfacts.org/discover https://world.openfoodfacts.org/contribute ). Crowdsourced Wikipedia for food. We already have apps (Cordova) and we're doing efforts to redevelop in native on each platform (all is volunteer word). We've long wanted to create a small game/gamification app to have people make more complex contributi…

^ this.

Helping OpenFoodFacts also helps a lot of apps and other non profits organization who use our database.

Re: Offer HN: I'll build a free app for a non profit

#14
post #5

Why not build a platform...some kind of app that non-profits could plug into and use.

that is the goal, but working 1-on-1 with a non profit first allows me to learn all the needs so that the platform can have all the stuff they want vs what I think they want.

I've wanted to do work like this too and build sites but then I think why wouldn't they just use Wordpress?
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