PROPEL builds software for low-income Americans who are often overlooked by traditional tech innovation. Their current focus is food stamps, a $70 billion program that reaches 45 million Americans. We talk with Jimmy Chen the CEO, Founder and his CTO, Ram Mehta about how they have gone about building the app that is now helping thousands of people manage their food stamps.
Resources
- PROPEL – food stamp app
- Fresh EBT – food stamp balance checking app
- Jenkins software – for server task automation
- Other fun tools for simpler web service automation: IFTTT, Zapier
- Challenge.gov – open challenges from government agencies
- Data.gov – open data sets from government agencies
