ginnyfahs / catcalloutapp

A mobile app to report street harassment using geolocation.

CatCallOut

A mobile app for reporting street harassment by geolocation.

Background

For the vast majority of women, public spaces aren’t necessarily safe. Over 99% of American have been a victim of street harassment. Beyond being unpleasant, street harassment runs the risk of escalating into something more aggressive and dangerous. What if there was a way to avoid it?

CatCallOut is a civic tech initiative to make our streets safer. We are a team of three developers, committed to building a mobile app that aggregates data about incidents of street harassment, and displays this data on a map. This way, everyone can see street harassment danger zones - and plan routes to avoid these areas.

My Contribution

I was responsible for getting the Google Maps API to play nicely with React Native. I also led the routing of our application with react-native-router-flux, and took point on UI and design work.

MVP Functionality

CatCallOut is built on a decoupled architecture featuring:

• Rails API backend
• React Native frontend

Rails API backend features

• Stores and persists user-generated reports
• Parses and passes JSON to the frontend

React Native frontend features

• Allows user to call out street harassment
• Shows all past reports of street harassment on the map
• Manages routing and state via React Native Router Flux

Flow

• See street harassment geolocated on the map
• Search for street harassment reports by location
• Call out street harassment by noting location, date, time, and relation to the incident
• See your call out rendered alongside other reports

Future Features

• Provide more details about what happened
• Confirm details of report and edit call outs before submit

Team Members

CatCallOut started as a hackathon project in September 2017. Team members include:

Dillon Arevalo | @DillonBArevalo

Ginny Fahs | @ginnyfahs

Josh Leichtung | @joshleichtung