Inspiration
What motivates us is being part of a mission that is much bigger than ourselves. Throughout this project, we have learned that to create an impact, you need great human beings willing to spend their time on something bigger than themselves. "We rise by lifting others" - Robert Ingersoll
What it does
It is a perfect platform for sharing goods and services among students using a point system. Points can be purchased as well as earned. People can upload "gives" and "gets" which are the way of changing points. In get, you spend points by getting some item and in give, you earn points by giving your items to people. It is basically an ecosystem that thrives on people helping each other. You can change the location from My Campus to My City to allow any student from your city to see your gives and so they can use it. We also have a chat feature so you can chat with the person who you are giving to or getting from. Also when you buy a "get" your points are deducted after you pick up the item from the giver. The pickup address is mentioned in the give and you can chat and get to know specifics and set the time and other things. The giver can set the time for which they want to lend the item, and they can also add the points they required to buy the "get".
How we built it
Mobile Application Flutter(Build) Figma(Design) Website HTML, CSS, JavaScript (Front-end) NodeJS, MongoDB, ExpressJS (Back-end)
Challenges we ran into
We know "hacks" are supposed to be thrown together, but our architecture actually ended up being quite stable. Developing microservices allowed us to "throw together" bits of the system by bringing up new services and have them work together quite quickly. This also meant we divide the work up effectively and each work on independent parts of the project. The whole idea came very late to us and so we had a very less time but the idea itself motivated us to do it , we were in "whatever it takes" mode
What we learned
Nothing happens overnight it takes time dedication and networking. If you're not making someone else's life better you're wasting your time.A lot of things like design, webdev , team work system design and also UI and UX trends.
Future
We plan to introduce ways to convert points to money where people can buy points effectively and also to grow we will be using the referral program
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