Open-source missing-persons reporting and matching tool for the Venezuela earthquake response. Report a missing person or a found person and get candidate matches.
El Umbral · Build4Venezuela
Antes de construir, busca · Search before you build
Search your idea. If it exists, join the repo and contribute. If not, publish it with your stack and what you need.
What is El Umbral?
A shared radar of every Build4Venezuela relief project — so we move fast without duplicating effort. Discover what already exists, see what each project needs, form a team, and submit finished projects to Build4Venezuela.
Crisis response hubs
Start from a hub
Beyond this board, these umbrella hubs aggregate the wider response — the hackathon itself and a citizen-built emergency hub.
Build4Venezuela
The hackathon home: official projects, Discord, and how to submit your MVP.
VZLA Response Hub
Citizen-built emergency hub: find people, damage maps, shelters, verified donations and official hotlines.
Find people · Damage map · Shelters · Verified donations · Hotlines
Live on the board
The team's top-voted relief projects right now. Jump into one — or search for yours first.
Relief mission coordination platform by crafter-station. A team is already available to test it — feedback and PRs are welcome.
Mapa de necesidades vs. recursos: conecta a damnificados que buscan ayuda con voluntarios que la ofrecen, mediante matching geográfico simple. En producción.
How it works
1 · Search
Look up your idea first. Fuzzy search across every project, in English and Spanish.
2 · Join or publish
If it exists, join the repo and contribute. If not, publish it with your stack and needs.
3 · Build & ship
Find teammates, track progress, and when your MVP is ready, submit it to Build4Venezuela.
Builders
111 builders
Designers, devs and translators from the hackathon roster — filter by stack, availability and timezone.
Browse builders →Ecosystem
13 live tools
Relief tools you can use right now — no need to rebuild them.
Explore the ecosystem →Search before you build
Have an idea? Search first, then publish.
Thirty seconds of searching saves weeks of duplicated effort. If it doesn't exist yet, publish it and find your team.