About Our App

Suppose you lost your wallet or umbrella in a public place; would you know where to start looking to find it? Perhaps a good-samaritan might find your item, may pick it up to keep it safe, but how would they know how to contact you to return your property? Even on a college campus, not many people know where the local lost-and-found collections are managed, so found items are often trashed or kept, and lost items rarely recovered. Our app aims to bridge this divide and return the found to the lost.

By allowing users to create profiles to report lost or found items, and to search through existing reports, good samaritans will more easily to connect to users looking for lost items and return lost items. Reported lost items will include accurate descriptions, time frames, suspected location geo-points, and tags to assist with matching with found items. Reported found items will have similar info, but more accurate locations and time stamps to automatically match with reports, but more limited descriptions, so that the good samaritan can ask for identifying details to discern a genuine owner from a fraudulent claim to the item. User profiles will contain a reputation rating that can be altered by any other user they interact with, so that suspicious, fraudulent, and dangerous users can be easily identified for the safety of others.

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