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The splash screen, where we display facts about how carpooling is helping the environment.
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The "Login/Signup" screen, where users can either login as an existing user with email and password, or signup as a new member.
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The "Signup" screen, where users can enter details such as their name, age, phone number, gender, car model, username, password, etc.
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The "Home" screen, where users can navigate to either find a ride, start a ride or visit the shop.
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The "Find a ride" screen, where users can find someone to carpool with by entering their destination and passengers they're traveling with.
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The "Start a ride" screen, where users can start their own carpool by entering their destination and the number of passengers accommodated.
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The "After ride starts" screen, which users are navigated to after their ride starts. Other carpoolers for the ride can be viewed on the map
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The "Emergency" screen, which can be used in case of any potential threat during the ride. We have several safety features available.
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The "Ride Finished" screen, where users are navigated to after finishing their ride. They can view details like coins earned from the ride.
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The "Shop" screen, where users can trade the coins they earn from carpools for vouchers and coupons.
Inspiration
While creating incentive to car pool was our main goal with this application, we were inspired by apps such as Uber and Ola. Why couldn't a similar idea be applied to car pooling? Along with this, we've often found that many citizens in our city are quite keen on helping the environment, but don't know how to. We are some of those people. With Polo, users have an easy way to help the environment in a way that is incorporated into their working lives.
What it does
Polo helps a user find someone to car pool with. So it's like booking a cab, except it's free, and helps the environment due to lower CO2 emissions. In addition, users receive a certain number of points at the end of their ride, which they can trade in for vouchers and coupons available on the app. Essentially, Polo encourages users to car pool.
How we built it
We built Polo using Kodular, a platform used to create applications. We used Kodular because of some very useful features, such as the ability to test the app while developing it with minimal effort. We used the platform for the front end and back end of the app.
Challenges we ran into
Using the Google Maps API on Kodular was quite difficult since we weren't very familiar with using it. However, we were able to figure out how to implement it to create a clickable version of our idea.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Rishabh and I (Nikita) know only the very basics of coding and this is our first time creating an app. That did put us at a disadvantage considering we would have a hard time navigating through software such as Android Studio. However, Kodular was more simple to use, especially for inexperienced coders. And while our app currently doesn't have all the features we intended to have, we're proud that we were able to bring our idea to life.
What we learned
We were able to learn a huge amount in a short span of time, which I think is the essence of hackathons. This weekend was a great experience, with the time crunch giving us copious amounts of stress, but our successes giving us immense happiness. We were able to become extremely familiar with Kodular, a platform we'd never used before, and were inspired to start learning other coding languages for future projects. We hope we're able to create a fully functional app for our next hackathon.
What's next for Polo
The first step would be to adapt Polo to make it a fully functional app. Second would be to introduce more safety features for our users, which include an OTP system for rides, safety policy agreements and the ability to send notifications to request for a specific driver (currently, the app automatically assigns the car which is closest to the user, and heading to the same destination) . We'd also want to make Polo something that can be used all over the world, no restrictions.
Built With
- google-maps
- kodular
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