QuadCommerce

Dashboard
Marketplace
Services

Inspiration

Every semester, students are stuck with textbooks and dorm stuff they don't need, and other students can't afford to buy them new. At the same time, student-lead businesses have no good way to manage customers and bookings. QuadCommerce solves both problems in one campus-first platform.

What it does

QuadCommerce combines two products:

Campus Reverse Marketplace — students list textbooks or dorm items and buyers place offers. The price of the item decreases as time goes on, incentivizing quick sales.
Student Business Dashboard — student entrepreneurs can upload services and businesses, while allowing their peers to schedule meeting times.

How we built it

Designed a responsive web app with a modern interfaced, and easy to navigate pages.
Built the main marketplace workflows: listing creation, offer submission, offer acceptance/rejection, and status tracking.
Built business workflows: service setup, calendar-style appointment management, and customer tracking.
Structured the app around modular components so marketplace and business features can evolve independently while sharing auth and user profiles.
Planned for secure scaling with role-based access and campus verification.

Challenges we ran into

Balancing two product experiences in one platform without making the UX feel overloaded.
Designing a reverse-auction flow that is simple for first-time users.
Defining a clean data model that supports both C2C marketplace actions and scheduling.
Prioritizing features under hackathon time constraints while still delivering a coherent end-to-end concept.