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ERICA HANSON: So next step, we're
going to welcome the next team.
So this is a team based in Hong Kong.
And so it's Team Picare.
And Kate's going to be sticking around with us
and going to ask the team a couple of questions as well.
And you can continue to add any questions
you have for the next team.
So this is Picare.
Let's take a look at their demo.
ERICA HANSON: Hello.
Hi, Team Picare.
How are you doing?
SPEAKER 1: Hi.
Doing great.
ERICA HANSON: Great.
We're so happy to have you here.
And we also have Kate who's still with us.
Hi, Kate.
How are you doing?
KATE LOVETT: Hello everyone.
I am great.
It's great to see another team creating with Flutter.
And I am so excited to hear about your experiences.
I actually used to work in senior living.
And it is wonderful to see an app making
changes in this industry.
So I'm really curious, first, what the inspiration
was behind your solution.
SPEAKER 2: Thank you for the question.
And in fact, the project ideas came from a story
of our team members.
He hired caregivers from multiple times
when his mom was in later stage of cancer.
So after a few years, this team came up together
and thinking the problem of the elderly care
industry in Hong Kong.
So we found that the industry is still using some call center
model, which would bring us some disadvantage,
like inconsistent quality of caregivers.
Therefore, we built up this app as the foundation.
And we hope that we can move a little bit forward
for this aging society.
So we provide healthcare matching platform as the entry
point to elevate the user experience
of the elderly caregiving service.
That's why we built our Picare app.
Thank you.
KATE LOVETT: That is so, so great.
I can imagine so many people that are going
to benefit so much from this.
What would you say were some of the benefits of using Flutter
to build your user interface?
SPEAKER 3: Yes, thank you for the question.
The reason we chose Flutter is that we see a huge potential
in this exciting technology.
Flutter, it is very easy to learn.
The syntax and logics of Flutter is very explicit.
Secondly, Flutter help us develop apps.
We have decent performance.
Our app performs great even in older generation smartphones.
On top of that, Flutter help us show them the development time.
Since there is numerous amount of pre-built [? regex ?]
in this framework, our team could
perform complicated features in our app
with merely a few lines of code.
Last but not least, Flutter works great with other Google
products such as Firebase.
It makes it much easier to expand
the scope of our project.
And we had a great time working with Flutter.
Thank you.
KATE LOVETT: That is so great.
I can't wait to pass that on to everyone on the team.
Really well done.
Congratulations.
ERICA HANSON: Great, thanks.
So let's take a question from the live chat.
I see people are asking a number of questions in there.
And thank you so much for doing that.
Let's see what question we have.
Great.
So while they're pulling up the question,
I did see one question about just how many people
worked on the project.
How many people were on your project team?
I think it was the four of you.
But they were wondering how many folks
were involved in the process.
SPEAKER 1: So four people of us taking
in charge of team [? post. ?] So I
I'm leading the team while [INAUDIBLE] and [INAUDIBLE]
are all leading in engineering, marketing, and operations.
So we are a full functional team.
KATE LOVETT: Wow, that is great.
That is really great.
ERICA HANSON: Great.
So let's take another question.
What was the hardest part to develop during the project?
SPEAKER 4: So actually, first of all,
we tried to build our first prototype to our top users.
And after that we received some feedback.
So like for the user site, we have some feedback
like is it possible for them to communicate earlier
with their caregivers and know what's happened
at home for the elderly?
And therefore, we try to enhance our system
and build a tracking system for the caregivers
to click and use those chat word function.
So for the caregivers they can just
click a button to indicate whether they
are heading home, [INAUDIBLE] arriving, and starting
the service.
And then for the users, they would
know what's happening at home.
And then they will increase the confidence level
of using our platform.
ERICA HANSON: That's great.
All right.
Thank you.
Thanks so much for sharing.
And yeah, I think that's all we have time for.
But thank you so much.
Did you enjoy working on this project
and being part of the competition?
SPEAKER 1: Yeah, the experience is really amazing.
We have literally spent a few nights overnights to work,
despite is a tough one.
But we really enjoy the process and definitely our relationship
has been improving a lot after that.
We love this competition a lot.
Thank you.
ERICA HANSON: Great, thank you so much.
And thanks for your dedication.
I'm sure there were late nights and great work by [INAUDIBLE]..
Great.
Thank you so much for sharing with us.
And also thank you to Kate for joining us
for these two projects.
We're going to be welcoming in some more guests and Google
guests in just a moment.
So thank you to all of you.
And thanks, Team Picare, for this awesome solution
and for being part of this competition.
KATE LOVETT: Thanks, everyone.
SPEAKER 3: Thank you.
ERICA HANSON: Thanks.
SPEAKER 1: Thank you.
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