Republic Of Bakers

Inspiration

We noticed that there is no unified marketplace to cater to the needs of small bakery owners, which in turn hindered their progress. The existing platforms in the market were not meant to garner the attention of their target audience.

Covid saw the rise of multiple small businesses and start-ups. We at Republic of Bakers want to provide these budding entrepreneurs with a holistic platform where they can showcase and market their work without having to bother about the nitty-gritty details.

Our main goal is to leverage small businesses to their potential, empowering them financially and economically.

What it does

So basically, we made a website and a mobile application to help small businesses grow and flourish and create new and constant employment opportunities over the upcoming years. And even help in the upliftment of women in the business industry. Women are good at baking, so we decided to empower them and uplift them to start small-scale businesses with things they do regularly. Republic of Bakers provides home-bakers with a user-friendly app to showcase their work and products without any external factors that take away from the main focus. It will help streamline customers more efficiently with a recommendation system. Mainly built to uplift and encourage women into business, they can sell and make money with things they do daily, like baking.

We have even created a scan code for easy access to the website. We added workshop and subscription features to help more people come into this business lane and earn some money. Through the workshops, people can learn how to bake stuff.

Through the subscription section, frequent buyers' can get some discount; through this, the seller will get daily assurerity earings

How we built it

We used Velo to build the website and used flutter to build the moblie application as mostly the seller and customers are moblie users ,so it would be easy for them to access and coordinate. We even added a chat bot so that if any customer or seller is having an issue , they can contact the admin immediately so that there is no hindrance and any loss due to it.

Challenges we ran into

Making a Chat bot for streamline service was down for about 24 hours since the start of the hackathon, and looking for alternatives that could suffice our solution was a big challenge. Adding a scan code to access the website and app

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We have a scan code through which people can register, buy , sell and it has a website as well as a mobile application

What we learned

1. Learnt Velo
2. We made a chatbot
3. We added subscriptions, an online order feature

What's next for the Republic Of Bakers

For future additions, we aim to add more features like workshops, monthly weekly subscriptions which will help in increase the sales and make profits in the long run. Even planning to expand to all kinda home cooks, not just home bakers.

Built With

• dart
• flutter
• velo
• winx