Mahallem

A community platform concept for comparing neighborhoods through lived experience.

Mahallem explores how local reviews and practical criteria could support people researching a place to live.

Role: To be documented
Team: 5-person hackathon team
Timeframe: Yalova University Hackathon
Status: Hackathon prototype
Platform: Web prototype

The project at a glance

Context

A five-person team prototype developed during Yalova University Hackathon around user-generated neighborhood knowledge.

Project overview

Mahallem is a hackathon prototype exploring how people could share and compare neighborhood experiences. The concept organizes resident perspectives around criteria such as safety, transportation, social amenities, and quality of life. Developed by a five-person team, it focuses on the product idea, core community flows, and a PHP/MySQL-backed web structure rather than presenting itself as a production service.

Why this exists

Problem & direction

Problem

People researching a neighborhood often find fragmented listings and generic statistics, while everyday details from residents remain difficult to compare.

Goal

Prototype a shared space where neighborhood impressions can be organized around practical criteria such as safety, transport, amenities, and quality of life.

How it comes together

Experience flow

Flow notes are being prepared

The section is reserved for a verified step-by-step product flow. It will be completed with the next set of project details.

See the work

Evidence & media

Prototype screens in preparation

The page currently documents the concept and technical direction. Interface screens and an explicit breakdown of my contribution will be added with the project assets.

What it is made of

Technical shape

Feature set

Multi-criteria neighborhood rating concept
Account and profile flows
Review and comment interface
Interactive neighborhood browsing
Criteria-based filtering for safety, transport, and amenities
Responsive layouts for mobile and desktop
PHP and MySQL-backed prototype structure

Architecture

Traditional LAMP-style architecture: Frontend (HTML/CSS/JS) -> PHP Backend -> MySQL Database. MVC-inspired structure with separation of concerns for maintainability.

Stack

PHPMySQLHTML5CSS3JavaScriptApache/Nginx web server

Engineering notes

Decisions & challenges

Decision log coming next

Technical decisions and challenges will be added after the contribution and implementation notes are reviewed.

Reflection

What I learned

Gained experience in team-based hackathon development, practiced full-stack prototyping, worked on data structures for user-generated content, and explored how a community product can turn an open-ended idea into concrete interface flows.

Where it can go

Next steps

No speculative roadmap

Concrete next steps will be published when they are selected. Until then, the status above is the source of truth.