Gøøse

Discover a seamless automated gateway to the blockchain world with Gøøse.

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📣 Problem Statement

  • Crypto technologies are difficult to understand and are not beginner-friendly
  • Users may lack confidence to even begin learning blockchain technology
  • There's a shortage of user-friendly platforms that automate transactions
  • Ledger's such as Hedera have useful testnets however lack ease-of-access to blockchain newcomers.

💡 Inspiration

  • Lack of user-friendly platforms for automating transactions *Beginners often encounter struggles when navigating this innovative space. Blockchain's technical jargon and concepts can be intimidating, making it difficult for newcomers to grasp its fundamental principles, and potentially have them turn away from every joining the community.
  • Our desire to explore blockchain technology and learn about its potential through practical application for our first time.
  • Wanting to make Hedera's testnet services easy to access for a new user

❓ What it Does

  • Our website automates the transaction process using the Hedera API's
  • Provides a user-friendly interface for managing accounts, sending/receiving transactions, and returning any failed transactions immediately back into your account.

⚙️ How we Built it

  • Used Voiceflow to create the chatbot
  • Integrated Hedera's API's into the chatbot to create an impressive and innovative project.
  • Front-end created using React, Next.js, and Tailwind

🚨 Challenges we Ran into

  • Learning and implementing Hedera's technology from scratch.
  • Finding proper knowledge through online documentation on how to use Hedera's API's as we are all novice's to blockchain technology.
  • Navigating Voiceflow's interface and integrating API's into the blocks.

💪 Accomplishments that we're Proud of

  • Successfully developing a functional chatbot with automated services
  • Overcoming our initial lack of knowledge about Hedera and Voiceflow
  • Collaboratively working together to learn and build a project in a short period of time
  • Creating a fully fledged frontend connected with a voiceflow backend

🧠 What we Learned

  • Acquired knowledge surrounding web3 and blockchain technology
  • Learned how to use Hedera and what its capabilities are
  • Learned how to implement voiceflow effectively in a blockchain central project
  • Gained experience in designing user-friendly interfaces and chatbots

🦆 Why Goose..?

  • Goose qualifies to win the awards:
    • Best Use of Hedera - We showcase a creative integration of Hedera's services, specifically Hedera's Token Service to create and manage tokens, to solve a real-world problem.
    • Best top 3 & top 6 overall - This project is not easy to develop, let alone complete it with a time constraint. But we managed to get it to be fully functional given that we were all beginners, especially in a complicated field such as blockchain.
    • Best UI/UX - We worked really hard on the NextJS frontend to feature not only an aesthetic design, theme, and colour palette, however also incoporating fun little features such as a bouncing logo when hovered upon.
    • Most creative use of Github - Our github features diverse commits from our team members, as well as a detailed ReadMe file which contains a variety of relevant documentation, linkedin, github & devpost links, as well as a variety of different markdown formatting.

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