Dorm Deals

List of User's posted listings to sell
Inbox of waiting messages for user
User's ratings dashboard
Main Listing Page
Sold Listing Preview

Inspiration

Sources like Facebook Marketplace, eBay, and Poshmark, are free for anyone to use. With that high of a scope, untrustworthy people hoping to prey on desperate college students are prevalent. Meeting up with strangers always carries a risk, and they may or may not even show up regardless of if payment was transferred. Graduating, or students that otherwise are no longer in need of their supplies (clothes, textbooks, furniture) need somewhere to get rid of their things. Every year, thousands of students are seen dumping their things during move out season. Students need a safe alternative that will also redirect the blatant short term waste created. Creating some local exchange will alleviate new student stress revolving buying last minute items as well as leaving other students less guilty by repurposing rather than directly trashing their things.

What it does

Allows UD users (verified through email) to be both sellers and buyers. Anyone can list an item they have for sale and list tags. Users can search via item name or tags (general item word, ex: product listed as "Tumbler 20oz" could be tagged as 'bottle' or 'water bottle') and select the desired listing. They can save interested products as favorites and view the favorites as a section. Interested buyers can contact sellers and ask inquiries and/or discuss potential meetup locations. Upon payment plans being agreed upon, sellers can mark an item as sold and they can arrange a meetup to hand off the product. User profiles and associated rating systems allow for other interested buyers to confirm general satisfaction of previous sales.

How we built it

We leveraged v0 for creating the initial UI design of the project. From there, we were able to determine and connect endpoints, deal with validation, and query the supabase database for user credentials. Our front and back was handled via NextJS which made end-to-end connectivity seamless. Credential verification as well as authentication confirmed only UD students can create accounts.