My recent accomplishment is that I’ve completed building an API to anonymously record donations made to charities, with the intention of allowing organisations like Giving What We Can and EAHub to automatically update the donation records of their members and to measure their impact (I figured there must be an easier way than individuals manually entering their donations).
At the moment I’m going to start working on integrating it with those organisations, and charities that are the most popular with effective altruists, but I’d also really be interested to hear any suggestions for possible applications for it that I could build?
Maybe something like a web application that exports all your donations to a CSV file?
Or maybe a Facebook plugin (is that what they’re called?) that displays your donation total on your profile page?
I’m all ears.
It’s currently set up to record a donor ID, a charity ID, the amount donated, a reference number, the date, and the time the database record was created.\
Hey Andy, I’m currently working on something very similar as an upgrade to Giving What We Can’s My Giving dashboard. Did you want to shoot me an email at sam.deere@givingwhatwecan.org to discuss — either as an opportunity to collaborate or to work out if there’s significant overlap?
Well, I’ll reply to this since you retracted the comment. I think a Facebook plugin would be a very neat feature! Some way of gamifying and displaying donations would appeal to a certain segment of donors who want to be open about their donations and start conversations with others.
Hi Sam and Andy, I’ve been thinking quite some time about a mobile app which uses The Life You Can Save’s charity impact calculator (or else you’re own estimates) to show a graphical overview of much bednets you’ve caused to hand out, etc.
It be cool to make it easier to note donations and have the visceral feeling of knowing how much you’ve already done to improve the world.
\Hey everyone,
My recent accomplishment is that I’ve completed building an API to anonymously record donations made to charities, with the intention of allowing organisations like Giving What We Can and EAHub to automatically update the donation records of their members and to measure their impact (I figured there must be an easier way than individuals manually entering their donations).
At the moment I’m going to start working on integrating it with those organisations, and charities that are the most popular with effective altruists, but I’d also really be interested to hear any suggestions for possible applications for it that I could build?
Maybe something like a web application that exports all your donations to a CSV file?
Or maybe a Facebook plugin (is that what they’re called?) that displays your donation total on your profile page?
I’m all ears.
It’s currently set up to record a donor ID, a charity ID, the amount donated, a reference number, the date, and the time the database record was created.\
Hey Andy, I’m currently working on something very similar as an upgrade to Giving What We Can’s My Giving dashboard. Did you want to shoot me an email at sam.deere@givingwhatwecan.org to discuss — either as an opportunity to collaborate or to work out if there’s significant overlap?
Sam
Oops, totally retracted my whole comment haha.
Will do, Sam! :)
Well, I’ll reply to this since you retracted the comment. I think a Facebook plugin would be a very neat feature! Some way of gamifying and displaying donations would appeal to a certain segment of donors who want to be open about their donations and start conversations with others.
Hi Sam and Andy, I’ve been thinking quite some time about a mobile app which uses The Life You Can Save’s charity impact calculator (or else you’re own estimates) to show a graphical overview of much bednets you’ve caused to hand out, etc. It be cool to make it easier to note donations and have the visceral feeling of knowing how much you’ve already done to improve the world.
Remmelt