GoReach

GoReach: Nobody is Ever Too Small to Dream Big

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Inspiration

Indonesia’s bustling micro, small and medium enterprises account for 60% of the country’s GDP, yet they have largely been excluded from the formal financial sector and no technical genius has ever tried to tackle the problem…. until now.

What it does

Introducing GoReach – not at all affiliated with Gojek. We provide an accessible, direct, and all-in-one platform to connect social media influencers with small businesses. With the rise of the global influencer marketing market, doubling between 2017 to 2019, growing from three billion to 6.5 billion US dollars, GoReach is sure to democratize social mobility, connect communities and help Indonesians reach dreams.

Influencers and small business owners alike benefit from the mutual symbiosis our platform offers. Up and coming influencers can increase their social media presence and small businesses can skip all the hassle of finding the right partner and get straight to business with our platform. Now, that's what I call a win-win-win-win solution ;)

How we built it

We used React and Tailwind CSS for building and designing our front-end application. To support the backbone of our system we used Flask web framework (Python) and integrated to MySQL database (using SQLAlchemy). Our site is hosted using .xyz domain and our application is served by Digital Ocean.

Challenges we ran into

  • Apache sulked and had deployment issues (don't worry, we're good now)
  • Trouble integrating various technologies into our React app, they just wouldn't mix! :(
  • Local MySQL server died so development was halted.
  • Got caught up in some GitHub entanglement mess (tip: never download repo zip, always git clone)

What we learned

  • Integrating Tailwind CSS to React
  • Integration of Flask & SQLAlchemy
  • Setting a record for how fast we could bring up a new domain.xyz website
  • The magical friendships we built along the way

What's next for GoReach

  • Better integration with social media platforms (Instagram, YouTube) for tracking influencer analytics such as engagement rate and follower growth. Gathering data from #hashtags, @mentions, and comments for better personalization.
  • Use cloud services from GCP, AWS, Azure to train AI/ML models once we gather enough data. (E.g. Azure Text Analytics, GCP Natural Language API)
  • Influencer groups – Meet & collaborate with influencers that has similar taste, talents and get funded together!
  • Integrated payments services with other players! Woop woop!
  • Help build the Indonesia we all love :)

Usage Instructions

  1. Go to https://goreach.xyz/ to land at the landing screen.

For tech nerds (GitHub users):

  1. Download repository.
  2. Open folder and npm install.
  3. Npm start.
  4. ???
  5. Profit.

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