BC Marketplace

Inspiration

While trading and reselling locally is great for the environment, excellent on keeping costs low, and overall a great way to bring a community together, the current products on the marketplace are unsafe and not tailored towards a BC community.

There is a lot of waste in terms of leftover items being thrown away at BC, which initially prompted us to create BC Marketplace as a means of offsetting the environmental impact from that.

What it does

BC Marketplace allows students to buy, sell, or trade items with other verified members of the BC community. Users can make an account (Must be BC email), post listings, click on individual listing pages to contact sellers, view seller profiles, and any other functionality you would expect with a local marketplace web app.

How we built it

This project was built primarily using Python, Flask, and Bootstrap 5.3.

Challenges we ran into

We tried deployment and ultimately ran out of time. We also ended up wrestling with Git more than I would like to admit, so in the future setting up a dedicated and diligent branch structure would be a life-saver.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This is the first time in any hackathon any of us have been a part of where our final project is a completely functional app. With some minor quality-of-life tweaks, this application could be fully deployed to the BC community and used by many as a safe platform for local trades.