GoRetone

Boosting Small Businesses In Style!!!

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What Inspired Us For Creating GoRetone?

We were inspired to build GoRetone after seeing the rate at which small businesses were shutting down during this pandemic. After doing further research about small business problems in Indonesia and the rest of the world, we saw that the lack of knowledge and availability of financial services was a major issue. Therefore, we were inspired to build our project to tackle this problem.

What it does?

GoRetone is a web app that is mainly focussed on boosting small businesses in an impactful manner. There are several services that are provided, which can help the owners of small businesses grow their business.

The features are -

Forum -- A forum page where businesses can post to promote their business. These posts will be available to all users, and users have the ability to comment on each other's posts.

GoRetone Chat -- The GoRetone chat feature is a service that allows businesses and customers to contact each other and have private or group conversations. It is a great way for businesses to get to know their customers, preferences, and feedback, and vice versa!

-You can view the chat feature demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK9GfOiYFl8

Upvote/Startup Helper -- The Upvote feature allows businesses to post their ideas on a discussion page. Other users are then able to upvote the ideas based on their feasibility. Business ideas are sorted by popularity and latest to be posted.

Maps -- The maps feature allows businesses and customers to locate different businesses and financial services on a Google Map to find the distance it is from their location.

How we built it

GoRetone was built using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, and Bubble.io. The homepage was coded through the mentioned languages and all the services were built with Bubble.io's visual programming technology.

Challenges We ran into

We ran into multiple challenges along the way. First of all, we are all in different timezones, so working at the same time was difficult. Secondly, we faced difficulty working with Bubble.io as none of us had ever used it before. However, by going through many tutorials, we were able to successfully build all of our services on Bubble.io. Moreover, we needed paid plugins for some aspects of our features, and the premium version was required to work together. Though, we found our way through this obstacle successfully by working on different applications from our own accounts and connecting them to the homepage by hosting them live on Bubble.io, and we found alternatives to the paid features.

Accomplishments that we’re proud of

We are really proud to have developed GoRetone. We believe that team management and our experience with front-end web development was really beneficial in completing this project. By working constantly for the past 36 hours, we were successfully able to learn how to work with Bubble.io, a feature we have never worked with before, and build our website through it, which for us, is a huge accomplishment during Garuda Hacks.

What we learned

We learned a lot during Garuda Hacks. First of all, we learned how to work with Bubble.io. By going through various tutorials and the website itself, we were able to figure out how we could build our website features on it.

Moreover, we were able to build on our problem-solving and trouble-shooting skills, as we faced multiple different challenges throughout the project.

Last but not least, all three of us were able to build on our front-end web development skills and came across multiple different styling and design techniques on Bootstrap.

What’s next for our project

The next steps for our project include building a mobile application version of GoRenote, so the platform would be even more impactful and available to mobile users as well. Also, we would like to continue GoRetone by taking it on a larger scale, with even better services. We would like to work with Bubble.io in the future for developing better features, as we saw that it is a great way for building a website.

Thank You

The past 36 hours was really a great experience for us. We were able to learn a lot and make friends.

Thank You Garuda Hacks For Such a Wonderful Hackathon!

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