GIVE-A

For you, for me, to find and get free stuff

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Inspiration

We observe there’s a lot of people that have come to this state where they have so much stuff or have no space left and want to give it away to people who need it for free. We as enablers see an opportunity to make a listing site so people could explore around and connect those who want to give their stuff and those who want free stuff. Our name was “GIVE-A” or naturalized to “GIVA” do to the Indonesia accent, our name have two definition which is “Giveaway”, and “Give Anywhere”

What it does

GIVE-A is a listing site that connects people who want to give their free stuff such as shirts, dresses, caps, or even television, etc. We’re as enablers achieve this goal by making a website that listing a free stuff that contain information about those who willing to give it for free

How we built it

First of all we research the problem which is how or where people give their free stuff, we’ve notice those people who doesn't have relation around their neighbour getting hard to get rid away their stuff or just because their stuff are to much. We’re implement tech stack such as nextjs, chakra-ui, mongoDB, vercel, and auth0 to handle our website mechanisme also using github as collaborative tool and discord as our communication tool

Challenges we ran into

Our team was constructed with 3 fullstack engineers and 1 ui/ux designer, first problem that we ran into was we doesn't have product guy that his job was to brainstorm and come of with idea so we talk a lot with our mentor to discuss our idea, till we come to this idea about making listing site for free stuff. Second, our team joined a hackathon for the first time so we have little knowledge about the workflow as well as what things to do at first. Then the third we’re thigh scheduled on weekend so we’re not having full of our time

What we learned

We learn new tech such as auth0 and we also learn how to do public speaking for the pitching, and we learn from mistake we’ve make hopefully our next hackathon will be better with the knowledge we have right now

What's next for GIVE-A

  • We will polish the UI/UX so the interaction with user will be a lot smoother
  • We will seed the proofread data to our database
  • Fix some bugs found
  • Adding features

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