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Show HN: Komak, a geolocation-enabled volunteering platform for Covid-19

Dragos_Petria 6y ago
Hey everyone! A bit of a backstory: We’re 3 young professionals working together in the same company for our day jobs. As we went into distancing a month and a half back, we started noticing a lot of local initiatives aimed at community response to help the elderly and other risk groups isolate. Most of them were (and still are) run quite inefficiently, using Facebook groups or Google forms to take in volunteers and requests and match them manually. What makes our platform different is that it: 1. Handles matching automatically and as efficient as possible 2. Is scalable globally 3. Can be used by existing efforts and initiatives 4. Is extremely simple and easy to use So we’ve done it! We’ve built an app for volunteers that works using geolocation and that deploys requests for help in-app. Requests can come both from “in need” users for the app and from web forms that use the location and deploy the request in-app. Existing organizations can be “Verified” through a badge once we vet them. We have built: 1. A React Native application written in Typescript (<3). We use Mobx for our state management. 2. A NodeJS API with Nest.js & Typescript. We use MongoDB (database) & RabbitMQ (message broker). You can access our swagger API publicly at https://api.komak.io/docs/ https://api.komak.io/docs/. Our DevOps stack: Kubernetes/ArgoCD (CD) - Fastlane/Drone/Github actions (CI) - Sentry (error reporting)
lcall 6y ago
Compliments on doing this. Another possible one to look at is https://www.justserve.org/ https://www.justserve.org/ , which is intended to help anywhere (organization can sign up, individuals can see what volunteering opp'ties are available), at the community level, and has a large organization behind it (so probably long-term sustainable), but is not specific to covid-19.
- Dragos_Petria 6y ago
  That's super cool! Thank you for the kind words and sharing justserve with us. We took a look and it's almost precisely the same idea, will have to give things some thought.
  - lcall 6y ago
    Maybe they accept volunteers for coding too. But really I don't know ;) But, if it helps and is a contact there, there may be some chance of collaboration. I know for some other software that the sponsoring org works on, they do accept volunteer code contributions, for what that may be worth. Best wishes, and again compliments for your service efforts! http://lukecall.net http://lukecall.net

Hey everyone! A bit of a backstory: We’re 3 young professionals working together in the same company for our day jobs. As we went into distancing a month and a half back, we started noticing a lot of local initiatives aimed at community response to help the elderly and other risk groups isolate. Most of them were (and still are) run quite inefficiently, using Facebook groups or Google forms to take in volunteers and requests and match them manually. What makes our platform different is that it: 1. Handles matching automatically and as efficient as possible 2. Is scalable globally 3. Can be used by existing efforts and initiatives 4. Is extremely simple and easy to use So we’ve done it! We’ve built an app for volunteers that works using geolocation and that deploys requests for help in-app. Requests can come both from “in need” users for the app and from web forms that use the location and deploy the request in-app. Existing organizations can be “Verified” through a badge once we vet them. We have built: 1. A React Native application written in Typescript (<3). We use Mobx for our state management. 2. A NodeJS API with Nest.js & Typescript. We use MongoDB (database) & RabbitMQ (message broker). You can access our swagger API publicly at https://api.komak.io/docs/ https://api.komak.io/docs/. Our DevOps stack: Kubernetes/ArgoCD (CD) - Fastlane/Drone/Github actions (CI) - Sentry (error reporting)

lcall 6y ago

Compliments on doing this. Another possible one to look at is https://www.justserve.org/ https://www.justserve.org/ , which is intended to help anywhere (organization can sign up, individuals can see what volunteering opp'ties are available), at the community level, and has a large organization behind it (so probably long-term sustainable), but is not specific to covid-19.

Dragos_Petria 6y ago
That's super cool! Thank you for the kind words and sharing justserve with us. We took a look and it's almost precisely the same idea, will have to give things some thought.
- lcall 6y ago
  Maybe they accept volunteers for coding too. But really I don't know ;) But, if it helps and is a contact there, there may be some chance of collaboration. I know for some other software that the sponsoring org works on, they do accept volunteer code contributions, for what that may be worth. Best wishes, and again compliments for your service efforts! http://lukecall.net http://lukecall.net