- A young digital marketing consultant launched a video call on LinkedIn calling for using confinement time to develop online solutions against Covid-19.
- Sixty volunteers collaborated this weekend to create nine sites providing assistance to people directly or indirectly affected by Covid-19.
- The new sites still need to be tweaked and all willingness is welcome to improve them.
A site to improve the diagnosis of lung ultrasounds. A platform for redistribution of protective equipment. A live support site for kindergarten and elementary students ... Three days ago, these services were still just vague ideas. Today, these are online services that are already functional or only a few hours away. All thanks to the tremendous creative momentum raised by Hack La Crise, a hackathon, launched this weekend by Estelle Pierre and Sébastien Morel.
The project was born in the early hours of confinement, from a video by Sébastien Morel posted on LinkedIn. "We are going to free up considerable time by stopping almost all of our outdoor activities," noted the young man. Let us try to make this time useful and united. I suggest you launch a great hackathon, 100% online to help people impacted directly or indirectly by the Covid-19 ”.
Nine projects are launched
It was a “bottle in the sea, launched hard from my computer,” recognizes the digital marketing consultant today. 23,000 people watch it. 700 offer their help, joining the project on the Slack collaborative communication platform. The projects are written, detailed; first tracks are emerging. Appointments are made, the hackathon can begin.
Out of the hundreds of people interested, sixty actively participate in development. Nine projects are selected, all meeting the initial specifications: 100% free services, online, prototypable in 48 hours and responding to a real need, such as the #EchographieDePoumons project, which allows doctors to safely collect opinions of colleagues on ultrasounds.
Crop on weekends
This is also the case of Aidons caregivers, a platform which allows offering help to relatives of caregivers, "because the caregivers themselves do not have time to ask for help", explains Guillaume Lujan , who contributed this weekend to the development of the service. The site, a kind of Leboncoin meeting the material or service needs of caregivers, is not yet fully ready, but it has made great strides over the weekend. The engineer, freelance developer, will help finalize it. "I am lucky to still have my job so I continue to work the day, but I will allow an hour to two hours and time on my weekends" to bring it to a conclusion.
Kevin Bravo will do the same to improve SOSéquipement.fr, a site launched this Sunday which allows the delivery of protective equipment to people who need it. “We started with a simple observation, explains the marketing consultant: on the one hand caregivers have large needs in protective equipment and on the other companies and individuals offer their stocks of equipment, but between the two c is a bit of a mess. So we created a platform that simplifies the connection. If a doctor has a request for gowns in Bordeaux and winegrowers have them on, we make the link. "
The platform is accessible, but as with all the projects born this weekend, "we still need to refine it, market it and push it so that as many people as possible know about it," explains Sébastien Morel. To achieve this, Kevin Bravo will slightly reduce the time he devotes to his real work and invest it in the project.
Search for volunteer teachers
As did Laure Guérin-Taquet, invested in the La Classe project at home. This timeshare entrepreneur and HR manager does not have the classic tech profile of hackathon participants. But she arrived with a problem to be solved, draft solutions and overflowing enthusiasm. “I have a 5 year old boy at home. I wanted to gather online resources to be able to teach him, but in the end it was up to me to teach and I have no pedagogical talent. And it's not fun for him, she explains without breathing. We finally created a site where teachers give live tutoring to children from kindergarten to primary, with the possibility for parents to ask questions and for children to enter the virtual classroom at any time. "
The site is launched. All that is missing is the teachers to give the lessons. “We want 36 per day, so that they only do one hour of lessons each, in each of the six classes. Make the call! "Urges Laure before hanging up to resume a call with her team.
Stay at home, get out of the gloom
"It's great what happened," comments Sébastien Morel. All these people who did not know each other and who worked together ... "" We did this for others, but also a little for us, says Guillaume Lujan. In this situation, many of us have taken a blow. This hackathon allows us to get out of the gloom… ”Notice to those who would like to imitate them, all good wills are still welcome for HackLaCrise.
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