Inspiration

The African American buying power is at 1.3 Trillion; and yet only 2 cents of every dollar spent by an African American in this country goes to black owned businesses.

Belp is the app that restores the power of the Black Dollar by promoting and supporting the growth of black owned business.

What it does

Belp currates a list of black owned businesses in your area based on what activities you're looking to do

How we built it

This app is built on REACTJS and MaterielUI with an Elixir and Postgresql backend.

Challenges we ran into

Populating our business list view and doing the map api calls

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Design flow and concept

What we learned

ReactJS and MaterialUI

What's next for Belp

Full Rating System Tracking Business page traffic Paid Ad placements Create new Business listings on the Platform Info section about business owner and business history Tracking User Data (Favorite Activities & Businesses)

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