After Building Apps For Harvey Victims, Houston’s Techies Set Their Sights On Irma

“After more than two days on a boat rescuing upwards of 50 victims of Hurricane Harvey from flooded houses, Matthew Hager decided to try to help his hometown of Houston the best way he knew how: with tech.

Though Hager and his friends looked like a ragtag volunteer rescue squad, he’s a web designer by trade. With other volunteers from his design shop Poetic Systems, he built what has become one of the central hubs for information on Harvey recovery, HarveyNeeds.org. Hager and his crew are hardly alone. As Harvey hit, Houston’s startup community went into overdrive, connecting over a volunteer Slack channel and gathering around impromptu hackathons to build at least 20 new apps and sites designed to provide support to residents, first responders and the city. Now as the city’s tech leaders work on a new long-term relief fund, the urgency has not abated. Indeed, Hager and his friends find themselves in a new race to adapt the tools they slapped together just last week so they can be used in Florida as Hurricane Irma bears down. …”

Read the full article provided by Alex Konrad  at https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/09/06/houston-techies-build-apps-for-harvey-and-irma/#ba928606001e.