What is Wellify?

Wellify is a one of a kind mental health community advocating for responsible social media influencing. It connects verified mental health professionals and users, giving mental health professionals a way to promote their work and reach more people and allowing users to understand their mental health better from registered experts.

• Wellify is a platform for mental health professionals to post content about mental health and wellness.

• Users can gain value from these posts and comment on them to start discussions with the author and other users.

• Users can connect with the mental health professionals they find interesting for consultations.

How can I use it?

You can visit Wellify to use the app, or view the source code here on GitHub.

Why Build Wellify?

• Social Media can get very overwhelming with the amount of information that we receive everyday, especially when it comes to information about mental health.

• Posts are many and they often contradict each other.

• This makes it confusing for users on who to follow, and difficult for professionals to reach their audience with helpful information.

How does it work?

1. Only registered and credible mental health and wellness experts are allowed to post. Admins manually verify professionals by looking up their license numbers on using admin dashboard. This ensures our goal of “responsible influencing”.

2. Users can follow the professionals they want to hear from and can also contact them for consultations.

What does Wellify offer?

Wellify's mental health community platform offers:

• Posts from Experts - Start Discussions with experts and other users.

• Gratitude Journal - Reflect on the Moment.

• Find Therapists Around You - Connect with the professionals you follow to contact them for a consultation.

• Search for Professionals - Search bar allows you to search for any professional, view their posts and interact with them and other users in the comments section.

What makes Wellify different?

• Mental Health Professionals get an exclusive platform to build and grow an audience to reach and help more people ❤️

• Responsible Influencing 👩‍⚕️

• Notifications for your daily gratitude journal entry 📝

• Search for professionals around you 🌍

• Mental Health Professionals are verified on an Admin Dashboard before they can post on Wellify. ✅

• Not your average mental health quiz/forum app. Everyone is welcome to our community. 🤗

How was it built?

Wellify was built during IEEE Codefury 6.0 organised by UVCE, Bangalore. The frontend was built using Vite + ReactJS, styled using Tailwind CSS. Firebase was used as a backend, along with many of its features like: Login with Google, user management, profile picture storage and database.

How can it be better?

We can add Machine Learning algorithms to suggest posts and help users network better.

Verification is currently done manually, but we have found an API developed by the government to look up medical professionals' details using their license number. We can integrate this into the Admin Dashboard.

How was my experience?

The experience of attending a 24 hour hackathon from home and coordinating with Hisham over Google Meet calls was definitely a new one. We challenged ourselves and eventually pulled through! From ideation, to the shock of being selected in the final few, to scrambling to prepare a presentation for the judges while barely awake, it was a thrilling ride and seeing "Team WhiteHatSeniors" in first place felt unreal.

In the end, it was an amazing experience where I learnt a lot. I'm extremely grateful for everything that happened that day and my friend, Hisham who motivated us both even in the times when we felt like we couldn't make it.