The Sambal SOS App

Crowdsourcing Aid Data Across the Nation

For Malaysians, By Malaysians 🇲🇾

This is the repository for Sambal SOS and you'll find usage, folder structure and contribution details below. Sambal SOS is fully open-sourced and community driven, feel free to checkout the list of active issues and submit pull requests. Read about our development workflow here.

The #benderaputih Movement
Usage
About us
Contributing
- Technical
- Monetary
- Development
- Other
Features & Milestones
Contact us
Publicity
License

Sambal SOS App is a social welfare platform that supports Malaysians in need by bridging the gap of social inequity.

Hop on the app if you see someone who needs help when driving or in your neighbourhood and want to report it so someone can help or you're looking to support other fellow Malaysians

Built:

By Malaysians, for Malaysians. 🇲🇾
Developed by passionate Malaysian developers, under this time of the MCO. 🥰
Living in a lockdown may feel uncertain, but we're in this together 💪.

The #benderaputih Movement

In Malaysia, the #benderaputih movement is a social media movement urging those in urgent need of living necessities or resources to place white flags outside their homes. In this time of a pandemic, white flags placed outside homes are notices to others that they are out of food or living necessities and need help right away.

Cited from a tweet on the BFM News Twitter account.

As of 2nd July 2021, the #benderaputih movement is currently one of the largest movements in our nation, and is also trending on Twitter under the #benderaputih hashtag.

Usage

Members of our community can post a picture through this web app if they see a white flag nearby and it will be displayed on a map, so that anyone on the internet can help those in need. Users of the app can also view the white flags posted in under a 10 KM radius of their physical location, to discover those in need who are nearby and possibly provide them with the needed resources.

We believe that our project will provide the necessary support for communities nationwide, and will benefit a lot of people in our communities, especially the underserved in tough times like these.

About us

We're a team of student developers passionate to make a positive impact to our community. The development of the Sambal SOS App is a continuous process for the time being, and we believe that developing this app is a way for us to volunteer and contribute to the communities in Malaysia.

Contributing

Technical

if you are a programmer that is interested to contribute, you can read this

particularly those who are familiar with Javascript, React and Chakra UI

Monetary

If you're willing to support us financially, please do get in touch with us! Monetary donations will be primarily utilized for maintenance costs of the Sambal SOS App, which includes: server costs, domain costs, etc.

Development

Sambal SOS is built from the ground up on a monster stack: React.js (Chakra UI, Redux), Node.js (Express), PostgreSQL and Google Cloud. Read about the development workflow, the issues we faced and how we solved them here.

The frontend is hosted on Vercel, while our backend lives on App Engine.

If you have experience in any of the following skills, you're exactly who we're looking for to join the team:

frontend development (JavaScript, React.js)
backend development (Node.js, Express.js)

Other

If you're interested to support us in other ways, do reach out to us using any of the contact details listed in the Contact us section.

Features & Milestones

The features and milestones that we plan to achieve for Sambal SOS App are:

✅ @mentions, #refs, links, formatting, and ~~tags~~ supported
✅ Users having the ability to post white flag incidences
✅ Users having the ability to view white flag incidences within a 10 KM radius of the user's location
✅ Users having the ability to view food banks within a 10 KM radius of the user's location

Contact us

Let's connect! 📧

Email ✉

Publicity

In the previous months, our app has gained the attention of the media, helping us widen our userbase

here are the articles related to our app:

Please help us spread word about the app on your favorite social media platforms. People knowing about our existance helps grow the app and provides assistance to the needy, especially during times of crisis.

Contributors

special thanks to these people that have worked on this project

Made with contrib.rocks.

License

Sambal SOS App is open source, licensed under the MIT license

sidharrth2002/sambal-sos-app