- Winner of UVA Ideathon 2024
Local is designed to bridge the gap between event discovery and participation, fostering meaningful engagement, stronger social bonds, and economic growth for local businesses. By addressing challenges at both the community and business levels, Local creates a mutually beneficial environment where events connect people and drive economic activity.
Features
- Advanced Personalized Event Displays
- Personalized Event Selection
- Public/private Event Sharing
Project Pivot, Formerly 'WTM'
We've rebranded to 'Local' and have changed the product idea by a large degree
What's The Move is an iOS app that aims to transform the way people connect and engage with their local community. It provides a platform for users to discover and create events that they can commit to immediately, sharing with their friends to join in with spontaneity.
- Github is still in private development :)
Features
- Event Discovery: Easily find local events and activities tailored to your interests
- Social Planning: Create and share plans with friends seamlessly
- Real-time Updates: Get instant notifications about new events or changes to your plans between friends
- Immediate Call-to-action: Activites and events users choose are pushed for immediacy - users do it right then
- Interactive Maps: [On Roadmap] Visualize events and activities in your area with an intuitive map interface
Figma designs during planning phase
Built with
- Swift and SwiftUI
- Google Cloud Platform for database and backend services
- Google Places for addresses & businesses
- MapKit for map integration
- [Will be] deployed on the App Store
Dev Notes
I'm working on this project with three others at my university, and we started the project in Flutter to release on both iOS and Android (although really it was because one of us didn't have a Mac and xcode environment)
August 25 - After a lengthy debate, we started a complete rebase to Swift in order to more accurately capture our vision of the app.
Business head of the team is currently in the process of getting funding through entrepreneurship lanes and capital groups, as of Aug 24. Don't know much about that
Roadmap
- Implement event recommendations based on user preferences
- Add in-app messaging for event attendees
- Integrate with popular calendar apps
- Develop an Android version of the app