I'm fortunate to be relatively unaffected by Covid. I work from home (as always), physically healthy and my family/friends are all taking good care of themselves so I have a mental capacity to focus on stuff.
I have projects I'm working on but I started thinking if I should pause and build something to somehow be helpful to the people more affected by Covid. Mental health seems to be a big one, a lot of people I know are lost, don't know how to deal with the situation, can't take staying home without real life social interactions.
What are your thoughts on this? Have you started working on anything? There's a lot of PH launches on the subject, but most of it seems to be another version of a covid tracker.
I'd also appreciate any non mainstream products / tips you have that I could share with the aforementioned people.
I like what @bentossell is doing - https://twitter.com/bentossell/status/1241296396445257728
Nice, yea. That's useful.
There's a cool website that's trying to gather ideas over here:
https://codevid19.com/
Here's a good list of projects you can work on. https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1239734182542225408
Hey @vhpoet,
I saw some news on social media about people with 3D printers helping to build materials the hospitals need, respiratoris, masks, and so on. So I think that's a great example, at least in Spain they're running out of supply.
I've also been having this same idea as yours in my head, like "man, I feel the responsibility to help somehow".
So sharing here an idea that I had, don't know if it is good / practical but I might get into testing something:
Examples:
This is a big one, but also a lot of work to make it work. Keep us updated on the progress.
True. Since IH has numbers, they can mobilize developers into some kind of contest to come up with a product that addresses Covid-@19
hi @vhpoet! I developed a mobile web app (FREE to use, it's called 3moves.club, that's the URL) with 100 at home workouts for all fitness levels. This also contains instruction videos from Youtube for each move. This is cool for people stuck at home without a gym.
As for the social contact, I would recommend the Houseparty app: you can videocall and play games with multiple friends on your phone at once!
Stay safe!
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