Plan It Girlboss

Plan It Girlboss is the ultimate female-empowering entrepreneur tool to help women plan their budgets, connect with other female bosses, and provide direct learning material. Start your company now!

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🪐 Inspiration 🪐

As four female developers, we wanted to create a hack that could make a noticeable difference in the world and still be enticing enough to use. We all felt drawn to the concept of helping women gain financial independence, so Plan It Girlboss was born.

Specifically, we wanted to target younger women who might be curious about starting their entrepreneurship journey. Throughout the project we’ve used ‘young people’ terms, with our most widely used term being the word ‘Girlboss”. The term ‘Girlboss’ has been an empowering term for female CEOs in the past and has recently become re-popularized with the millennial and gen z generations.

Our name, “Plan It Girlboss”, is a play on the words ‘planet’ and ‘plan it’; with planet/space being our theme and ‘plan it’ referencing planning your future business or financial plans.

We were heavily inspired by the following statistics:

🌟 What it does 🌟

Plan It Girlboss is a women-targeted website that has 3 main focuses: budgeting, connecting, and learning, specifically for young entrepreneurs. Additionally, enjoy a randomly generated quote or question on the home page to inspire you to keep progressing towards your goals.

BUDGETING BABE

With the budgeting portion of the website, you currently can select one of 3 years (2021, 2020, and 2019). Once selected, you’ll be taken to the physical budget where you can input your budget for the year and your expenses and can also remove previous expenses if needed. It also clearly demonstrates what you’ve spent out of the budget you’ve set and how much money you have remaining to spend.

CONNECTION QUEEN

With the connection portion of the website, you currently can input a specific city/location/business into the search bar and have the map instantly take you there. This is to help you seamlessly connect with fellow Girlbosses in your area.

LEARNING LADY

With the learning portion of the website, you currently can select one of four articles written by our development team to read to inform yourself about relevant topics that could impact your business, your day to day life, or are socially relevant. The articles are all tagged to make it easy to visually filter through what you’d like to read today so that you’re making the most out of your day and your time.

🌎 How we built it 🌎

This application was built with React, HTML, CSS, JavaScript using Glitch. All code obtained from public open-source materials has been cited within the project's README.

All of the art assets were created using Canva.

💫 Challenges we ran into 💫

  • It was difficult for us to use React at first as it is a relatively new framework for all of us.
  • A lot of time was spent on persisting the data while navigating between different routes.
  • Because of the 36 hours time limit, we were unable to implement more complex features such as allowing users to log in and save their budgeting summaries and allowing users to connect with actual mentors.
  • Styling elements proved to be a challenge as most members are unfamiliar with CSS.

🌗 Accomplishments that we're proud of 🌗

  • This was most of our developer’s first hackathon! We’re happy we accomplished it within the timeframe and submitted something we were proud of.
  • We got the budget page to work with different years!
  • We had fun and got to learn more about each other, as well as have many laughs along the way.

🌠 What we learned 🌠

  • How to use the State Hook to change the state of components.
  • How to use props to allow data persistence between different routes.
  • How to install and import npm packages that allow us to program with more ease.
  • How to fetch data from an API.
  • How to work together in a virtual hackathon.

🌌 What's next for Plan It Girlboss 🌌

We are excited for the future! There are quite a few features that could be added, but the main ones would be:

  • A working login page
  • A month-to-month budget system
  • A chatting system to chat with fellow Girlbosses
  • More articles in the ‘Learn’ section

If any investors are interested in this project, there are quite a few features that could be implemented so that you can make money:

  • Top-quality, paid lessons for the learn page
  • Paid mentors Girlbosses can connect with
  • A monthly or annually billed subscription service to access all paid features at once

Thank you for reviewing our hack. We hope you have a great rest of your day!

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