Development of an AI-Driven Community Marketplace Platform for Waste Reduction and Recycling

The organization faces challenges in efficiently scaling community-based resource sharing activities across multiple cities, requiring a standalone digital platform to increase independence from social media dependency, improve operational efficiency, and support larger, potentially international, markets. Key issues include facilitating quick posting of items, tracking individual and community impact, and motivating user participation at scale.

A growing environmental NGO focused on promoting reuse, recycling, and upcycling through community engagement and digital solutions.

• Develop a mobile application that enables fast, generative descriptions of items based on images to facilitate quick posting.
• Implement impact tracking features to monitor and display the amount of items shared and the environmental benefits achieved.
• Increase user engagement through gamification, community impact counters, and social sharing functionalities.
• Create a scalable, standalone platform capable of supporting large, international, and local communities for resource sharing.
• Enable easy feature expansion and integration with existing social media platforms to streamline user experience.

• Generative image-based item description generation for quick postings.
• Phrase saving, draft management, and instant posting to social media platforms.
• Impact tracking capabilities for individual contributions and overall community benefits.
• Geolocation of shared items for local community focus.
• Gamification elements to motivate repeated participation.
• Community impact counters to visualize environmental benefits.
• Support for appointment scheduling, notifications, and safety information in subsequent phases.
• Built-in chat and local group management for enhanced communication.

• Social media APIs for instant sharing and posting.
• Geolocation services for local identification of shared items.
• Notification services for appointment and safety alerts.

• Scalability to support thousands of concurrent users across multiple cities.
• Performance optimized for rapid content generation and posting.
• High security standards to protect user data and privacy.
• Accessibility features including support for visually impaired users through generative descriptions.
• Reliability to ensure continuous operation with minimal downtime.

The platform aims to significantly increase community engagement by simplifying item sharing, with an initial focus on reducing waste and landfill contributions. It seeks to scale up to support millions of users, track over 35,000 tons of items conserved annually, and enhance environmental sustainability through improved reuse, recycling, and upcycling activities. The system will enable measurable impact insights, fostering continual improvement and greater community participation.