Let's Not Fail
I made this for myself and others after being quite overwhemled by the amount of information I found during my research. I wanted to make something to allow me to share my findings in hopes to help others
I made this myself to illuminate causes near and dear to my heart hoping to help othres make a difference.
Project Outline
Create an anxiety free space for resources to contribute to push for equality for Black, Latinx, AAPI, immigrant and LGBTQ+ communities with separate ways to participate, each with is own random link generator for those who want to start but don't know where.
LetsNot.Fail was born during the pandemic times of social unrest when, like everyone else, I started to read and research about ways to contribute not just by voting, but also educating myself, donate and find other meaningful ways to make a difference. I found the amout of resources to be overwhelming, and felt like other people out there probably wish they could do more but they wouldn't know where to start. In a time where people had dozens of links in their link in bio, I thought, why not, just make a site with a collection of links, organize it by types of actions, and provide a "pick one for me" button for each action, to redeuce the barrier to entry for those who want to do something, but are also overwhelmed and don't know where to start.
Creative development #
As a developer, I felt like using one of the link in bio platforms, while valid for others, didn't make sense for me, because while functional, I felt like it didn't provide a way to organize and present the information in the most compelling way. I wanted to go a step above the basic link in bio and make it a collection with organized sections per type of action, and include small descriptions of each resource to help users understand more in detail the resources links.
As someone who learns visually and loves podcasts and audiobooks, I wanted to provide a variety of resources which included film, tv, videos, audiobooks and podcasts to learn more, additionally to the traditional donation sites, books and articles.
I also wanted to provide a section for parents to have the conversation with their little ones, for those who were interested in approaching the conversation in a time where kids were stuck remote learning at home.
Development process #
Built with Eleventy, using Nunjucks for templating, with Decap headless CMS for updates.
- Marquee and animations made with GSAP
- Site files and content version control maintained via GitHub and served in continuous deployment with Netlify
- Random link picker built with vanilla js
- Next: StopAsianHate