I have been on IH for some months now, lurking very cool stuff without contributing much to the community yet.
I am a Product Manager Consultant that lives in Milan and due to the lockdown for the Covid-19 all my projects are on hold. Looking at the positive side, I have some time to start a side project :) Specifically, I would like to build something that helps people in this time of quarantine.
I am looking for some developers that want to partner up!
Project idea:
Due to the quarantine, many people spend a lot of time at home and they get bored and depressed. Social interactions are happening only online (thankfully!) and mainly with friends (through group calls and remote house parties). Italians are known to be quite sociable and like to meet/talk to people they just met. This is why I would like to build an app that allows to meet random people in the same situation, through video chat.
I know that there are plenty of similar applications out there but they are not used in Italy and specifically they are not targeting the people in the quarantine. Therefore, I want to build a specific app for this though time, to help people get over the quarantene.
I have already done some of the discovery work (feature analysis, high level mockups, …) and I am currently building a very simple browser based version of it (following tutorials and learning from online resources). I do believe it would be nice to build something together!
Please drop me a line if you are interested to partner up. I am also welcoming other project ideas related to the Covid-19 quarantine situation.
This is a marketing problem not an engineering problem. If you want to build this, it sounds perfect for a no-code implementation. Put up a landing page, take the person's info, and email them their match. No need to build your own app or own video chat platform. Have them use whatever they already know how to use: Whatsapp, Facebook, Skype, Google Hangouts, Google Meet, Zoom, etc.
I agree, implementing a new video chat system is not necessary, but a nice to have. As I have some time and I want to deepen my programming knowledge I am looking for a project where I build something.
Hi, please take a look at my post on the profile and see if interest. Thanks.
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