Semicolon

Built in one day at the Hack Against Violence hackathon.

Semicolon is a mobile-first application aimed at supporting those who are struggling with mental illness and self-injury by connecting them with an expert from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

The code for the backend can be found here.

Contributors

• George Czurlanis (@georgecode)
• Ilaria Varriale (@HigitusFigitus)
• Kayden Williams (@kaydenwilliams7)
• King Heng Jonathan Lok (@lokpio)
• Max Bigras (@mbigras)

Team Dynamics

• Check-In Protocol

  • Successes
  • Blockers & resolutions
  • Goals

• Workflow

  • User Stories & Iterations
  • Pair for wireframing and challenging features
  • PR author does not merge their own PR
  • Collaborate to fix and solve merge conflicts
  • Branch for each feature

Tech Stack

• Ruby
• Sinatra
• SQLite3
• HTML5
• CSS3
• SASS
• Twilio API