Wavechat

Health Education
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Share your Covid story using Micro-Podcasting. Templates allow easy sharing to social media and encourage good habits and connection.

Dave Goldblatt, Dennis Stücken

Inspiration

We wanted to build upon our product and offer people a way to express themselves in a time of fear and isolation. Our micro-podcasting app allows people to share their stories, so we thought adding in templates to encourage sharing and connection was the most impactful thing we could do in a short time period.

What it does

Wavechat allows you to record up to 60 seconds of voice that can be turned into a mini podcasts and then shared on network, or off network on social media or privately via text.

How we built it

We utilized Firebase on top of our existing Swift app to create a new template for people to share their COVID stories.

Challenges we ran into

Given the potentially sensitive nature of the stories that we wanted people to share, we had a difficult time coming up with the categories. Eventually, we think we struck a good balance of levity and seriousness.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

An entirely new feature in a weekend!

What we learned

Hackathons are tremendously useful for spurring an idea to completion :)

What's next for Wavechat

We're going to launch this feature publicly in the next day or two!

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