Cara App (Volunteer Developer)
An image-sharing platform where artists and creatives share their portfolios.
- Role
- Volunteer Developer
- Date
- 2022
- Status
- Not longer part of it
- Type
- app
- Built with
- React Native, Expo
Cara is an image-sharing platform and social network made for artists and creatives. The platform is run by founder Zhang Jingna alongside a group of volunteers.
I joined as a volunteer developer during a moment where the app was growing quickly and needed help. It wasn’t my project, but i liked what the team was trying to do and wanted to be useful.
Why I contributed
I wanted to Help the project while it was on a very difficult moment when it was scaling.
What I worked on
I worked on fixing bugs, and implementing features accross the react native app
Most of my time went into the less glamorous but important part of an app: fixing things and helping new features make it into the React Native app.
Challenges or lessons
Working on volunteering distributed teams!
Working with a distributed volunteer team was different from a normal work project. People were helping because they cared, while also trying to find time around everything else.