Housr Rewards

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  Dashboard page

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  Payments page

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  Rewards page

Inspiration

We wanted to provide an web solution that allowed students to earn credits and redeem perks for paying their rent and bills.

What it does

A simulated online wallet that allows users to pay rent/bills and keeps track of their corresponding credits, and allows them to redeem the credits for selected perks. We also have a tier system, so once a user has made 10 months' rent payments they earn an extra 10% credits.

How we built it

The backend is built with Node.js and TypeScript, with a Postgres database and a Prisma ORM. The frontend is build with React, Next.js and TypeScript, with Tailwind for styling.

Challenges we ran into

We both had to learn technologies we weren't familiar with, like Postgres and Next.

Also, we are a small team of only two (who hadn't met before the hackathon), so at the start, after careful planning, we decided that one of us would write the frontend and one of us would write the backend. When it was time to put these parts together, it proved difficult to do but we managed it after working together on one laptop.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud to have put together a working prototype in such a short period of time and with a small team.

What we learned

• We learnt how to use frameworks we'd never used before the hackathon, like Postgres and Next.

What's next for Housr Rewards

We want to add more gamification features, such as:

• streaks -- bonus credits for consecutive payments
• community goals -- e.g. perks for everyone if the University of Manchester collectively earns 1000 credits

Built With

• next
• node.js
• postgresql
• react
• tailwind
• typescript