Inspiration
Living in the Rio Grande Valley, we noticed many small businesses in our area. These businesses support the locals and we enjoyed spending our time there as we grew up. However, gentrification is affecting these businesses, and they are not able to get the support they need. By creating a website catered towards small businesses, users can connect and support these small businesses by seeing their account and what they do.
What it does
It is a website where small businesses can input their profile into the website. The website offers a contact page that sends an email to the admins, so that the admins can add business's profile into the website.
How we built it
Using Python, Django, Git, Github, Render, and HTML/CSS, we were able to deploy the website. Python and Django handled the frontend, HTML/CSS was used for the frontend, Git/Github was used to push the changes we made, and Render was used to deploy the website.
Challenges we ran into
There were challenges using Git and GitHub, as when we tried to push our repository there were some conflicts. Also, working as a team was difficult because we had to merge our ideas together and we were unfamiliar with much of the technical skills we were working with.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We were proud of our website! Many of the skills we learned were foreign to us as first, and being able to create a website with these languages and cloud services is something we are proud of.
What we learned
Other than learning the technical skills listed, we learned how to work together and split it evenly to help make everything work together. One important highlight was learning HTML/CSS, as we were foreign to frontend development but we learned so much about it.
What's next for Markit
We intend on implementing databases to help users make their own accounts without contacting the admins. In doing so, more small businesses are able to develop their own account and get their message across to residents.
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