El Umbral · Build4Venezuela
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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
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.
Open the hackathon →VZLA Response Hub
Citizen-built emergency hub: find people, damage maps, shelters, verified donations and official hotlines.
Live feed · most voted
The three most-voted relief projects right now. Jump into one — or search for yours first.
A platform to centralize photos and short videos of people and animals so families get information and reunite. Challenges: handling simultaneous uploads and visits without saturating, security in vulnerable low-connectivity environments, and AI to optimize searches and generate fast matches.
Deduplicación y limpieza de registros de personas desaparecidas (entity resolution): normalización, blocking fonético, scoring de similitud y clustering — el algoritmo propone y una persona revisa, nunca decide solo. PII-sensible: solo sobre datos con consentimiento, sin scraping ni auto-merge.
Plataforma de apoyo para emergencias que facilita la reunificación familiar tras el terremoto. Solo enlace; sin scraping ni copia de datos.
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
180 builders
Designers, devs and translators from the hackathon roster — filter by stack, availability and timezone.
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20 live tools
Shipped, live tools you can use right now — no need to rebuild them.
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