Vyapar

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A small business solution!

Inspiration

Atma-nirbhar campaign that is going on in India, which promotes local products rather than imported ones. It is the vision of PM Narendra Modi to make India a self-reliant nation. The small-scale industry is facing a lot of difficulties and is unable to cope up with the international competition. The growth of small-scale industry plays an important role in the escalation of the economy.

The small-scale business vendors need an appropriate platform that can boost up their confidence to compete with large-scale business. This provides an opportunity for any kind of local businesses to showcase their products and it also changes the customers/users perspective towards local products. In general, we wanted to contribute towards the growth of local business and economy of the country through our product VYAPAR which means business in Hindi language.

What it does

Our website VYAPAR was created keeping in mind to provide a user friendly platform. It stores data of the vendors that will be beneficial for the users and helps them to find out the local products, businesses, hotels etc near them. It provides complete details about the local business.

Moreover, it does not restrict anyone but only allows both user, vendor to create a profile only after proper legal verification . As we all know starting a new business is not easy, especially in such a rapidly changing economy, VYAPAR provides a perfect platform for an amateur or a newbie to start his business from anywhere.

How we built it

We started off by creating a login/signup page that could efficiently authenticate the users. We even encrypted the password given by the users using the password_hash() function provided by PHP.

We linked the front-end with the database, that we used to retrieve the information that can be displayed in a particular structure so that it is easily accessible to the user. To make it more attractive we used bootstrap and custom CSS.

Challenges we ran into

Since it was first online hack-a-thon it was challenging for us to coordinate with each other. Initially on the technical side we had issues with the encryption of the password and the user authentication too.

We tried using azure to deploy our website, but at the time of this submission we are still working on it !!!

Accomplishments that we’re proud of

We were able to solve the authentication issues that we faced. We are proud of ourselves that we were able to contribute to the local businesses and even help the consumers to get best recommendations.

What we learned

Our communication increased, we also learned to work as a team. We got a better exposure to new technologies such as PHP, JavaScript, MySQL. We also got to learn from new friends that we made during the hack-a-thon.

What's next for Vyapar

In future we have planned to add more categories and add functionalities like recommendation systems, optimize the search engine through various filters.

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