Proteus Mentor

diagram of economy

Inspiration

We were inspired by websites like Reddit that specialize in fostering large communities based on a topic, and the lack of a platform for open-sourced learning. Also, as the project went on and the concept became more developed, we made sure that it would be a service that we'd want to use.

What it does

It creates an environment where you can follow different topics you're good at and help people out for currency so you can get help from real people who have expertise and passion in a topic you're not so good at.

How we built it

We used a Django-REST backend with a React frontend. The backend uses a SQLite database to store our data, and the frontend uses Tailwind CSS to make it look a little better.

Challenges we ran into

As this was our first hackathon, many of the problems we encountered had to do with working with others on a project this ambitious for the first time. This meant lots of merge conflicts on GitHub, and being able to develop backhand and frontend "in parallel", only to connect them together later down the line.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The concept and functionality of the website was fully mapped out and diagrammed, and we've made great progress with the frontend and backend.

What we learned

Doing this project, we learned a lot about frontend and backend development, especially when it comes to how to split up the workload among three people.