It\u2019s just over 100 days to the midterm election, and we have an awesome new way to get people excited about helping out.<\/p>\n
We were approached by Purpose back in February to build an engaging new tool for online-to-offline volunteers, and we\u2019ve been hard at work ever since. Now we are launching Crush the Midterms to help everyone get involved. The site asks users a few simple questions about where they live, their free time, what issues they care about, and special skills they have, and recommends a personalized plan of action from now until election day. With email and calendar reminders with locally relevant ballot and elections information, we aim to provide custom advice at scale.<\/p>\n
The tool is built with React and Django, and provides a fast and easy \u201capp-like\u201d experience on mobile. Reminders can flow seamlessly into Google calendar, or other native app calendar apps. Since launch we have had over 5,000 people make a plan, and are currently optimizing for sharability on Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n