The goal is to inspire people who stay at home during the COVID-19 pandemic and to share tools for making the most of the time.
We did the challenge as part of the the HackCorona hackathon: https://hackcorona.world/ This was my first hackathon and it was an amazing wild ride! I had signed up for it just a couple days before the start date and only got confirmation I was to participate a few hours before kick-off. Going into it I didn’t know if I could do much to help, since I’m a psychologist with a kind of mixed bag of other skills, instead of say a straight-up data analyst or programmer. I feel incredibly lucky to have met the others, who welcomed me and found ways to make use of everyone’s skills. Coining the term “homenauts” is probably my biggest contributions - otherwise I mostly tried to do some research and write content for the website, while the other members collected content, wrote, made illustrations, built front/back-end functionality, acquired the domain... Every time I checked back in there was something new to see. Exhausted, we finished the hackathon in second place out of more than 30 teams and received a lot of positive encouragement for the idea.
We plan to continue work on this project, albeit at a less intense pace. So I and the others would love to hear what ideas you might have for the user content sections, or any other feedback! We all want the project to help our fellow homenauts as much as possible :D You are also very welcome to submit links to be added to the site if you want - in that case, check out the icon at the top right of the site.