Shelter Ready in San Diego offers a bed reservation app operated mainly by social workers but lacks the extensive features of Finding Home. Its impact on our business is low.
NAVApp, running on Microsoft infrastructure, focuses on data collection, visualization, and geofencing to track homeless encampments. We propose a device network approach for tracking. NAVApp poses a moderate to high impact on our business.
The iOS Shelter App covers about half of the client-side functions Finding Home offers but misses essential data analysis and excludes a significant Android user base. Its impact is moderate to high.
Charity Tracker serves shelters by monitoring bed occupancy via barcode scanning and tracking fund usage but lacks a communication platform for the homeless themselves, resulting in moderate to high impact.
Existing apps like Shelter App and Shelter Ready provide helpful features for homeless individuals but fall short on data collection needed for shelter efficiency improvement. Charity Tracker focuses on shelters but lacks direct user features. Finding Home aims to unify these functionalities into a single, comprehensive platform beneficial for both shelters and people in need.
In a notable example, Airbnb and government agencies supported 211 networks for temporary hurricane shelter relief. This illustrates that governments might bypass contractors like Finding Home by organizing efforts directly through public hotlines. This presents a high impact on our business.
The data processing and storage for Finding Home initially relies on cloud services like AWS for cost efficiency. As we grow, transitioning to secure physical data centers will necessitate sourcing equipment and maintenance for large-scale servers.