altruisto / altruisto

A browser extension that allows raising money for charities through online shoppings

What is altruisto?

It's a browser extension that allows users to raise money for charities through their online shoppings with no extra costs. When a user visits one of our partners' stores, a special notification is displayed. After clicking the "start raising money" button, the user needs to confirm the choice and is then redirected back to the store through an affiliate link. When she or he buys something, the commission earned from affiliate program is donated to carefully chosen charities that have been thouroughly researched by GiveWell.org. The charities are: GiveDirectly, Against Malaria Foundation, Schistosomiasis Control Initiative.

Install

Install altruisto from Chrome Webstore or Mozilla Addons

Special thank you for contributions:

Ardent Code

AppLover

altruisto's Issues

Travis CI set up

TravisCI is great CI; and free for open source project. On eapoland/landing-page we use it for building github page:
https://travis-ci.org/eapoland/landing-page

and can be used to check all incoming commits with lint (at first) and with unit tests; e2e etc later on.

The config itself can be added in PR; but travis needs as well access token for getting access to the repo itself:
https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/getting-started/

Add login / register feature to website

Altruisto browser extension has already implemented login or register feature.
This task is about extending website with same functionality.

To be considered:

• as browser extension is written in JS/React it could be relatively easy to reuse that code
• if the code would be reused there is another question on how to do it properly (do not copy/paste but actually reuse)

Too benevolent plugin permissions

The permissions "Read and change data on all the sites you visit" are too broad to be safely acceptable. While the users may trust you, this can be exploited indirectly. Please consider narrowing it to affected domains or other means of activation.

npm run deploy crashes

tested on Linux and Ubuntu with similar result

AzureAD+ArturKozubek@vostro MINGW64 ~/projects/github/altruisto/website (feat/pwa-a2hs-landing)
$ npm run deploy

> [email protected] deploy C:\Users\ArturKozubek\projects\github\altruisto\website
> ts-node --project tsconfig.server.json scripts/deploy.ts

>> deploy: copied `./shared`
>> deploy: replacement results: [
  { file: 'server.ts', hasChanged: true },
  { file: 'pages/contact.tsx', hasChanged: false },
  { file: 'pages/email-subscriber-confirm.tsx', hasChanged: false },
  { file: 'pages/email-subscriber-thankyou.tsx', hasChanged: false },
  { file: 'pages/privacy-policy.tsx', hasChanged: false },
  { file: 'pages/terms-of-service.tsx', hasChanged: false },
  { file: 'pages/waiting.tsx', hasChanged: false },
  { file: 'pages/welcome.tsx', hasChanged: false },
  {
    file: 'pages/confirm-email/[email-verification-token].tsx',
    hasChanged: false
  },
  { file: 'pages/partners/[domain].tsx', hasChanged: false },
  { file: 'pages/partners/index.tsx', hasChanged: true }
]
>> deploy: commit created
>> deploy: pushing new branch to the homepage repo
>> deploy: branch pushed
>> deploy: reseting branch with master so it can be easily merged
error: pathspec 'deploy-22_4_2020_3_35_PM' did not match any file(s) known to git

(node:29896) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: error: pathspec 'deploy-22_4_2020_3_35_PM' did not match any file(s) known to git

    at toError (C:\Users\ArturKozubek\projects\github\altruisto\website\node_modules\simple-git\promise.js:90:14)
    at C:\Users\ArturKozubek\projects\github\altruisto\website\node_modules\simple-git\promise.js:61:36
    at Git.<anonymous> (C:\Users\ArturKozubek\projects\github\altruisto\website\node_modules\simple-git\src\git.js:517:18)
    at Function.Git.fail (C:\Users\ArturKozubek\projects\github\altruisto\website\node_modules\simple-git\src\git.js:1475:18)
    at fail (C:\Users\ArturKozubek\projects\github\altruisto\website\node_modules\simple-git\src\git.js:1433:20)
    at C:\Users\ArturKozubek\projects\github\altruisto\website\node_modules\simple-git\src\git.js:1442:16
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5)
(node:29896) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 1)
(node:29896) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

Support list of disabled domains

I'd really like to disable altruisto on a few domains that I visit frequently for things other than online shopping (e.g. microsoft.com, which I normally visit to read technical support articles).
Rakuten's extension, which is similar to Altruisto, supports a custom list of domains to disable the extension on.

Thanks for your consideration!

Is there a documentation available for the source code?

I wish to build clone of altruisto for raising money in India through affliate commissions.

If you wish to help me out with the specifics, I would love to collaborate.

Enable PWA on website subproject

The goal of this task is to enable easier UX for mobile users.
It will be achieved by:

• enabling A2HS feature of PWA to current website project
• updates of CSS/resources to fix possible issues on mobile view ports e.g. open these links in web and in
  • https://altruisto.com/partners/121doc.com
  • https://altruisto.com/partners/1dayfly.com

Replacement for drop-downs on mobile view

Have a look on this page: https://altruisto.com/partners/1dayfly.com

Drop down here allows to pick one of the two possible values. Assuming there will be COVID-19 option in a while there will be three of them.
I guess that other controls may be more useful here (https://medium.com/@kollinz/dropdown-alternatives-for-better-mobile-forms-53e40d641b53)

Create README.md

See example: https://gist.github.com/fvcproductions/1bfc2d4aecb01a834b46

Main purpose of this task is to add information on how to set up environment and build the project on dev workstation.

The google chrome webstore link isn't working

The indexed url on google search also 404s