Hey Cycle is a web app that scrapes this site you probably have never heard of
http://www.freecycle.org/ (it’s like craigslist but all items are free) that allows users to save time and effort of having to repeatedly check this site for the items that they are looking for. So, we basically made a better interface that allows users to receive messages on the items that they are interested in receiving rather than having to come back numinous times to check up on what they need.
This is what we made. Please view this site in Google Chrome Browsers only! We only had 14 hours and 5 people to make this from nothing:
http://heycycle.appspot.com/
How does this help humanity? Well the answer is it’s a 3-way win for people and the planet.
1. People want to get rid of good working items as to not through them away and fill up landfills.
2. People who need free things.
3. The planet who does not want any more garbage in landfills, CO2 emissions from materials used to mine, produce, ship and receive new products.
the PPT (including team members) can be found:
http://heycycle.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/HeyCycle_RHoK_Presentation.ppt