TechBuffalo Team 1

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  The team!

Inspiration

"We have the goal of lowering the barrier and making entrepreneurship accessible to all.” _ - Jason Bartz

Our group was inspired by the mission statement of Good Neighbor Fund and wanted to help grow the Buffalo community.

What it does

Our workflow utilizes technologies that are in the same workspace except for Zapier. Zapier intakes the founder data through their form interface, then through automation sends a Slack message with the form information to the Good Neighbor Fund Slack. The company organizers in the Slack would then be able to react to the message with either a checkmark emoji or a 'X' emoji to either accept or decline the application. From there, if the application is accepted, Zapier automatically sends an email to the applicant with the acceptance and the onboarding instructions. If it is declined, the declination email will be sent to the applicant and will ask them to subscribe to our newsletter.

After an applicant is accepted, Zapier will create a Google Sheet using a template we created and add it to a shared folder with all of the organizers in Good Neighbor Fund. This Google Sheet simulates a dashboard where Good Neighbor Fund can keep track of analyitics of their founders' companies. This data is collected quarterly using a form sent out to the founders via email, automatically through Zapier.

Challenges we ran into

The main challenge during this hackathon was not having enough initial information about the company and their workflow. We had to ask a lot of questions to wrap our heads around what exactly we needed to solve.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Grace, one our team members, made an amazing Canva presentation that uses the colors and themes that Great Neighbor Fund uses. We are also proud of our straight-forward and accessible workflow that can be used by all and is cost-efficient.

What we learned

Working in a group with different majors and perspectives is vital to creating a great product.

What's next for Good Neighbor Fund's Workflow

When Good Neighbor Fund expands in the future, it can subscribe to Databox to funnel the data directly from Zapier to a dashboard that can be viewed by all of the organizers of the company. Databox is capable of keeping track of any social media's follower and post counts and any financial data that you put into it. It streamlines it into an easy-to-view dashboard that can be customized depending on the type of company.

By implementing Databox in the future, Good Neighbor Fund can expand their brand and mission statement to support Buffalo's future entrepreneurs.

Built With

• canva
• excel
• googleworkspace
• zapier