Inspiration
Capstone projects are the highlight of a college student’s career. A student will put all of their creativity and the skills towards the projects completion. However, many outstanding projects are abandoned or unnoticed after one graduates! To combat this, we built Capstone Capitalists, a platform where students can connect with potential investors and donors to get their capstone projects funded.
What it does
Students sign up to post their idea's title, description, and image. Since many capstone projects are a collaborative experience, students can invide teammates into a project. Investors can sign up to browse through projects posted by all students. In addition, investors can save projects by liking them.
How we built it
We planned out our ideas and database schemas on a white board, organized our project requirements according to time constraints, selected a few technologies we wanted to learn (such as MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node.js, known as the MERN stack), then divided tasks throughout the hackathon (such as frontend, backend, and user testing). Finally, we collaborated using Git/Github.
Challenges we ran into
Our goal for this hackathon was to learn as much as possible. Although we successfully learned the MERN stack, we struggled planning out the schema for students, contributors, and projects, organizing backend API endpoints, learning React, attempting to protect endpoints with JSON Web Tokens, and communicating to MongoDB with NodeJS.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Successfully learning how to create an API with Node.js and Express to communicate with a MongoDB database, polishing our UI/UX with React, and deploying a full-stack minimum viable product within 36 hours.
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