🚨 RescueEye Global: Building a Life-Saving AI App with Kiro
When disasters occur — floods, fires, earthquakes — minutes can mean the difference between life and death. Unfortunately, in many areas, people don’t receive timely alerts or clear safety instructions. That’s the gap I aimed to close when I joined the Code with Kiro Hackathon.
The result? RescueEye Global 🌍 — an AI-powered platform that detects disasters, sends real-time alerts, and offers instant safety guidance.
💡 The Inspiration Behind It
Living in a country frequently affected by floods and extreme weather, I’ve seen how delayed responses can cost lives. My goal was simple:
- Detect emergencies quickly
- Alert people immediately
- Provide clear steps to stay safe
But as a solo developer in a time-constrained hackathon, I needed more than motivation. I needed a partner that could speed up coding, architecture, and prototyping.
That’s where Kiro came in.
⚡ How Kiro Accelerated My Development
Instead of spending hours dealing with boilerplate code, Kiro allowed me to focus on the why while it handled much of the how.
Here’s how Kiro became my co-developer:
- Spec-to-Code 📝 → I wrote natural language specifications for features like “store and display disaster alerts on a map,” and Kiro converted them into functional code scaffolds.
- Inline AI Coding ⚙️ → Whenever I faced challenges (such as structuring my Flask routes or managing JSON storage), I asked Kiro directly within my IDE — it generated clean, ready-to-use snippets in seconds.
- Agent Hooks 🔗 → I experimented with hooks to automate workflows, like fetching weather data and feeding it directly into the alert system.
- Multi-Modal Thinking 🎨 → From backend logic to frontend UI, Kiro adapted to whatever part of the stack I was working on. It felt like coding with a teammate, not just a tool.
The most magical moment? Watching Kiro convert my rough spec for a “real-time alert history with filtering” into an actual working feature that almost instantly functioned.
🛠️ The RescueEye Global MVP
Here’s what I built during the hackathon:
- 🌐 Flask Backend → Manages incoming disaster alerts and classifies them.
- 🗺️ Interactive Map → Displays alerts in real-time, with icons representing disaster types (flood, fire, earthquake, etc.).
- 💬 AI Chat Interface → Powered by a Hugging Face model, it answers questions like “What precautions should I take in a flood?”.
- 📜 Alert History + Filters → Allows users to explore past events by type or location.
In summary: A climate-tech platform with the potential to save lives someday.
🎯 Why This Matters
Technology is powerful, but its true value lies in the lives it can help.
With Kiro, I turned an ambitious idea into a tangible MVP — not in months, but in days.
RescueEye Global is just the beginning. The bigger vision includes:
- Partnering with local governments
- Scaling alerts across countries
- Saving lives during disasters
✨ Final Thoughts
This hackathon wasn’t just about writing code. It was about possibilities.
And Kiro showed me that the future of software isn’t just faster code — it’s smarter, more collaborative development.
I’m proud to say RescueEye Global was built with Kiro by my side. Together, we bridged the gap between idea and action — and hopefully, between danger and safety for those in crisis.
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