UNF Marketplace

Inspiration

I purchased a textbook for $50 from Amazon. When I tried to sell it, I only got $10. I realized that if I had sold it to another student, they would have been willing to pay more than $10 and they would have also saved money by not going through Amazon or the UNF bookstore, which is a win-win scenario. However, the problem was that there was no popular forum that would allow me to connect to buyers, or vise-versa.

What it does

It's Craiglist for college.

How I built it

We built the frontend and

Challenges I ran into

We ran into challenges while developing both the frontend and backend. I developed the backend, while my friend developed the frontend.

Frontend

• Positioning the content with CSS *

Backend

• Getting hot module reloading to work during development
• Integrating express.js routes
• Connecting to Firestore

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I am proud of having built the backend (albeit incomplete) because I knew nothing about the frameworks I was using, and hardly any JavaScript. After suffering through hour-long documentation greps, I learned more about the Node.js serverless ecosystem than I was expecting to.

What I learned

Me: New frameworks, more JavaScript My friend: CSS tricks, Bootstrap

What's next for UNF Marketplace

We will for sure continue to work on this app after the Hackathon, as our MVP prototype gave us an idea of what directions to take our concept in.

Built With

• css3
• firebase
• html5
• node.js
• react