Sotam was a mobile service to help novice parents in South Korea easily find trustworthy pediatric clinics (소아과 병원/의원) nearby. Though the service is now closed, it's being open-sourced to support others interested in community-driven healthcare tools and local discovery services.
🔗 Service Introduction Website (Archived) You can still browse the introduction website here: 👉 https://sites.google.com/serenstudio.net/sotam
After I decided to take a career break, I wanted to build something meaningful and light to help people around me as a personal project. Many new parents—especially those with infants or new to a neighborhood—struggle to find reliable pediatric clinics. Existing hospital-finder services were too general, not well suited for children's healthcare, and lacked meaningful reviews from fellow parents. In reality, many moms relied on word-of-mouth—but that breaks down when you're new in town.
Sotam aimed to bridge that gap by combining verified government data with community insights, presented in a user-friendly map and list format.
- Displayed nearby pediatric clinics on an interactive Kakao Map.
- Allowed parents to:
- Browse and search by name, landmark, or current location.
- View clinic details like working hours, weekend/night availability (e.g., 달빛어린이병원).
- Read and write reviews, using structured survey forms to make contributing easy.
- Combined official medical databases with real user feedback for more context-rich information.
- Fetched and maintained the South Korean government's public medical facility dataset.
- Parsed and filtered the data to extract pediatric-specific clinics and relevant metadata (e.g., doctor name, specialization).
- Developed a custom survey and review system to collect and display feedback from users.
- Built a responsive and intuitive interface to present information via:
- Map view (Kakao Map API and webview)
- List view (sortable/filterable)
- Detailed view (clinic info, reviews, working hours)
- Implemented a location-aware search experience.
- Backend: Go, MongoDB, Docker
- Frontend: Flutter (supports both Android and iOS)
- Map Integration: Kakao Map API
- Deployment: Dockerized backend services
Though Sotam is no longer running as a live service, this repository is open-sourced in hopes that:
- Others can build local, community-focused tools with better healthcare discoverability.
- Developers interested in Flutter + Go + MongoDB stack can learn from a complete mobile service example.