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Inspiration

Bringing communities together and uplifting small businesses.

What it does and how we built it

This website makes information about small businesses in Chicago more accessible. With a back-end of JavaScript and a front-end of HTML with the aid of the Yelp Fusion API, we grabbed the information about the businesses and listed their names. Clicking on a name will show relevant information about the business.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Some of the features we are proud of are the search on the home screen and the implementation of the API. We are also proud of our adaptability throughout this project. We all ran into bugs at one point or another and were able to figure out a solution, whether by ourselves or with the help of our teammates or mentors.

What's next for the Kelp

There are many features we would like to implement into the website. Some of them include adding the ability to add businesses to their favorites, having the user able to follow businesses and donate to them to support them, and allowing businesses to post deals and such on the website as an exclusive for their followers, among many, many more!

Built With

css
html
javascript
json
yelpfusionapi

Submitted to

SparkHacks 2025

Created by

I worked on the back-end. I had not used JavaScript or Node to this extent before and this was a great learning experience. To use the data about the businesses, we implemented an API from Yelp which is something that I had not done before. I enjoyed the challenge of learning to implement this website!

Jessie Nouna
I worked on the back-end. I was not very familiar with Java , but during this time I was able to gain so knowledge on JavaScript.

Elda Shatro
I worked on the front end. I created the search feature and connected the front end to the back end, allowing the data to be displayed. I had a great time learning html, it was challenging but super rewarding when we finally had our finished product.

Rachel Ludwig
I worked on the front end. I was not very familiar with html or css, so this was a great learning opportunity to try new things out and see how they worked!

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