Business Ship

help small businesses stay afloat!
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Inspiration

After the COVID-19 pandemic, many small businesses wiped away. Right now, due to high inflation, big business are crushing local businesses, and they are forced to shut down. In order to give back to the community and support local economies, we created Business Ship.

What it does

Business Ship brings microentrepreneurs, and they help the small-businesses to generate revenue by selling their products to consumers. Through this, customers could also directly contact the businesses and negotiate directly. This would help in creating a healthy & thriving local economy.

How we built it

The website was built with HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript. Along with these, we used Twilio Sandbox for WhatsApp for interacting with people. The website was deployed using Github-pages & a custom domain was used.

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Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenge faced by us was the integration of WhatsApp in Twilio Sandbox.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The User-Interface of the website is really minimal and intuitive.

What we learned

• Learned Twilio and how to deploy WhatsApp for Twilio Sandbox.
• DALL-E was fun, the logo was generated by an AI :)

What's next for Business Ship

• Introducing a chatbot directly connected with e-mail.
• Show location-wise data of small businesses so that people could support them.

See the open issues for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).

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Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement". Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

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License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

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Contact

Arnav Goel - @arnvgl - arnvgl@pm.me

Project Link: https://github.com/arncv/Business-Ship

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