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Neighbors

Ruby on Rails App

Neighbors - Connect with people next door

Neighbors is a rails application that lets people who lives in one house connect with each other and exchange information around topics like parcels, mutual help or community activities.

3 developers | 10 days

Tools used

Features

Communities

Each house can have one community. Guests can visit the homepage and find out wether there's already a community existing at their address or wether they would be the ones to found the community.

Dashboard

The app features three main boards around the topisc "Parcesls", "Mutual help" and "Community". Cards that have been created since the users last logout also appear on the "What you've missed" board.

Cards

Users can create cards for the different boards and select their desired category. They can choose from "action", "request", "info", "offer" or "question" depending on their need and choose to whom the card should be addressed to, which could either be a group of neighbors or a single person. Users can add a title and fill in optionals, like a description, start/end date and time or upload pictures.

In order to have discussions that are topic-related, each card has a comments section where people can exchange.

Cards will only be visible to it's creator and it's recipients and can be edited or archived by their creator.

All the users cards can be viewed by accessing "My cards" in the menu that's revealed clicking on the users avatar in the nav bar.

Archived cards are shown in a separated tab.

Profile

User profiles can be accessed through a list of users that is revealed if you click on the avatar picture in the upper right corner of the dashboard.

Each user has a profile where as much information can be shared as the user wants. The only mandatory information that is displayed are the name and the building floor of the user. Users can get rewarded with different badget depending on the number of cards made and the number of comments given.