SkillIssue

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SkillIssue: A Skill Exchange Platform

Inspiration

Many people have valuable skills but lack disposable income. Whether they're students, gig workers, or individuals facing financial hardship, they often struggle to access the services they need. SkillIssue provides a solution by allowing users to exchange skills instead of money, making personal and professional growth more accessible to everyone.

What It Does

Rather than being limited by financial constraints, users can trade value for value offering their expertise in one area in exchange for learning or receiving help in another. This fosters continuous growth, expands skill sets, and builds a supportive community of lifelong learners.

How We Built It

After attending the Gadget workshop, we decided to build our platform using:

  • Gadget for backend development
  • TypeScript for strong-typed logic
  • PostgreSQL for database management
  • React, Tailwind CSS, and ShadCN UI for a sleek, responsive frontend
  • Gemini AI for intelligent skill-matching and recommendations

Challenges We Ran Into

  • Understanding the Gadget ecosystem and adapting to its workflow.
  • Gemini API Rate limit
  • Authentication bugs that would tank our platform

Accomplishments We’re Proud Of

  • Achieved our core goal of building a working skill exchange platform.
  • Designed a highly responsive UI that enhances user experience.

What We Learned

  • Deepened our knowledge of React and debugging.
  • 💡 Pushed ourselves to learn a new development environment

What’s Next for SkillIssue

  • Growing an active user community.
  • Expanding features to scale the platform and reach more users.

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