GearGrid

Inspiration

As a team, we aimed for ideas that would benefit the community and environment as a whole. One major inspiration was finding a way to encourage innovation in an individual even without the necessary tools, by having the ability to borrow them without worrying about the high costs associated with brand-new tools. Moreover, we also aimed to make GearGrid a platform for start-ups or users to initially run a type of “business” where they can earn revenue, in the case for those who are looking for ways to earn some money.

What it does

GearGrid creates a collaborative platform where users have the option to either lend or borrow tools that are posted on the web app, with the choice of borrowing with a fee or for free. It will allow users to sign up and choose to post or browse tools.

How we built it

Using GitHub as the collaborative platform, we used streamlit to design the web app’s front end and python as the main programming language. Supabase was also used to create the backend for the web app. As a team, we were able to split and allocate tasks in order to complete the web app in time.

Challenges we ran into

A challenge we ran into was getting our teammates set up and getting used to the media that was chosen for this project as it did take some time.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We’re proud of the fact that we were able to complete the project in the given time, as well as how the web apps display turned out.

What we learned

We learned that access to technology allows us to find new ways of improving everyday life, especially the social, environmental and related aspects. By taking advantage of this, we found that we were able to successfully create a web app that could positively impact our community and more. In addition, we found that by influencing one part of an issue, we can impact a variety of other aspects.