Office Hub

Inspiration

The Kibo team published an article last week about the technical challenges that students learning and working online and Nigeria face—poor electricity and internet access.

What it does

Office Hub allows companies that have unused desks in their offices to post these free spaces online. Students who can prove that they are enrolled in online programs can then apply to use these office spaces and they will be available to them for free.

Although we couldn't build all of this our concept was:

• "Entities" could create accounts and say if they are signing up for a company or student account
• "Entities" with company accounts will add the address of the companies and the cities. They will also be able to publish office openings.
• Students will see the list of all openings. They will be able to filter them by preferred cities.
• Students will be able to choose an opening of their choose. Companies will accept their requests, and the student will receive an SMS when their request is accepted.

How we built it

We were supposed to build a full app that has dashboards, login pages, and office directories with Appwrite and a bit of Twilio. Due to technical challenges, we are only able to publish the HTML body of the website we made that was to be attached to the Appwrite backend.

The HTML body and login pages were built on Replit.

Challenges we ran into

In an interesting coincidence with the purpose of our project, one of us who was to work on building the actual functionality — the login pages, the dashboard, and the listings — had an electricity problem for over 24 hours, so we are only able to submit the HTML files that were supposed to form the body of the website.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

What we learned

What's next for Office Hub

Possibly making the actual project to work.

Built With

• appwrite
• html