Are you tired of struggling to find reliable help when you need it? Look no further than Plug/Plugs! Our app connects you with skilled individuals who are ready and willing to lend a helping hand, no matter the time of day. With our real-time availability feature, you can easily find a "Plug" who is available to assist you with your specific needs. And for more traditional jobs, our app also allows users to post tasks and offers, making it easy for you to find and hire the right person for the job. Trustworthy, easy to use, and available at your fingertips - Plug/Plugs has got you covered. - ChatGPT
After seeing the low amount of well-defined online services offering user-to-user help, I looked into creating a solution myself. One of the most important things was for it to be quick, easy to use and trustworthty for the user-to-user. Plug/Plugs will try to deliver a system where you access help from anyone, at anytime, securly. The main concept is called "Plugs". Plugs will have the option to list what they're capable of doing, and the time they're available (in realtime). Some might even be available at 3am.
On the other hand, are jobs. These are your traditional jobs which users can post, and anyone can offer to help in exchange for $$$.
Clearly, the "Plugs" will the most interesting concecpt of the application, and how to perfect it's use case. It'll be an exciting project which I hope to keep open-source. (plz don't steal my idea. Contribute instead)
We decided go for Next.JS as the frontend framework, while still keeping our backend in Go. I started out with React and CSR, but I had too many concerns about SEO and other goodies that Next provides.
The choice for using Expo, instead of just React-Native, is the ease of use, and abstractions I don't want to spend time on handling myself. Building the app with Expo is also awesome.
Nothing much here. I chose Go because I wanted a fast and robust backend, something Node does not offer (xd), although some microservices will running Node.
Seriously though, I like Go, as well as it would be nice to learn more. Would probably have gone for Node if I wanted to write the backend quicker.
We need investors!! :)
