Inspiration
From nearly one day to another, the corona-crisis brought a lot of office-worker into the situation that they had to work from their home-office where they don't find a professional equipment. Professional equipment is essential because it enables them to work efficiently and ergonomically. On the other hand a lot of companies offices are orphaned and mostly very well equipped. But how can we bring these two parties together?
What it does
Our solution 'HomeBoi' acts as a marketplace where home-office workers can fastly find professional equipment and companies on the other side are able to make a little bit of money from their unused equipment.
How we built it
We built it using the TypeScript/JavaScript Stack based on nestJS in the back-end and Angular in th front-end. As for the persistency layer we use a PostgreSQL database. For deployment and runtime we use heroku.
Challenges we ran into
A big challenge was to find a makeable solution for the 48 hours hackathon. And, regarding the business model, we might have a change in the scope to focus more on the local area. Something like a search over the map for example to find local available office equipment might be a huge benefit.
Accomplishments that we’re proud of
A live and working Full-Stack Application featuring all basic functionalities, a nice marketing video and Basic UX Design within 48h with a very small team of 5 developers, 1 UX Designer and 1 Marketing Specialist.
What we learned
We learned that when we work together as a strong team, we can achieve very good solutions that empower the community in short time.
What’s next for Homeboi
Next we'd like to find encouraged people and companies that are willing to test and use our solution.
Features we are already planning to implement in the future:
- Search near your location
- Renting between private persons
- Update user profiles
- Follow company/user
- Ratings
- Social Media Login
- and many more
Built With
- angular9
- heroku
- nestjs
- node.js
- postgresql
- typeorm
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