PostIt

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Inspiration

Online accessible educational resources are plentiful now, but finding the resources best suited to you among all of the available options is harder than ever.

What it does

PostIt is a website for sharing educational content with other users, who can "bump" the best content to the top. This facilitates the process of finding resources as they have already been curated by fellow learners.

How we built it

We built PostIt with React, and used Bootstrap for some of the styling.

Challenges we ran into

We initially attempted to use Firebase on our backend to store posts, but ran into repeated issues during compilation. We shifted to using local storage in the end which only stores post data on each individual device, but we plan to update it further. We also ran into issues with tailwind clashing with vanilla CSS and Bootstrap, so we had to switch to using just bootstrap.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

PostIt includes a functioning posting, searching, user creation, and bumping system. The design is also pleasing to the eyes and renders quickly.

What we learned

We got more experience with React and Bootstrap, as well as with Firebase (although it didn't end up in the final project). We learned that quite a bit is achievable in a timeframe as short as 24 hours, and also that it's often worth it to cut our losses when things aren't working out and look for alternative solutions.