The Outpost

A marketplace to recycle, sell, and buy items in communities across the world to prevent wastage.

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Inspiration

We found inspiration from platforms such as Facebook Marketplace and Ebay and recognized the amount of waste that arises from people throwing out items they don't want anymore. However, these items can still be used and by throwing it out they are contributing to landfills and pollution. Thus, we arrived at the idea of creating a platform for people to recycle goods and make money at the same time so that they are not contributing to pollution but are also incentivized to recycle. Additionally, since recycling items on a large scale is often very tough for people to pick up items when the people are far away. They also don't get a sense of fulfillment when they recycle the items. Therefore, we chose to make our platform such that users can create communities to sell their items so it is more local. This way communities can stop wastage by recycling items with eachother.

What it does

Users are able create accounts and post items that they want to sell inside of communities. They are able to favorite items they are interested in and see the location of the item so that they can pick it up. They are also able to create communities to sell their items in. They can also search for items based on price and name while also being able to navigate through their various communities.

How we built it

We used Material-UI, React.js, and Javascript for creating the frontend. For the backend, we utilized Hiroku and MongoDB for hosting the backend.

Challenges we ran into

We had a lot of challenges with our navigation bar and getting our backend and frontend to work effectively.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to create a functioning backend and User-Interface.

What we learned

We learned about how to host a backend and make it interact with elements of our frontend.

What's next for The Outpost

We want to add a messaging system for users to interact with each other and integrate the Google Maps API for users to see their communities and where the items are.

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