Inspiration
These past few weeks of partial lockdowns have seen many small businesses on the verge of shutting down. We’d hate to see our favorite coffee shops, local cinemas and bakeries go, so we wanted to find a way to support them while still practising social distancing and staying at home.
What it does
The app helps to connect two groups of people: small local businesses who are struggling in the current economy, and local residents who are eager to support them. This app provides a platform for local businesses to reach a wider audience and for Singaporeans to find ways to support them.
Users can further submit entries for their favourite local brands through Google Forms, which is linked to our database.
How we built it
We used ReactPWA (https://github.com/Atyantik/react-pwa) for the frontend boilerplate, Cloud Firestore for the database, Google Forms to collect the information from businesses, and Heroku to host the app.
Challenges we ran into
We took a while to set up the architecture and pipeline of the project, because it consisted of connecting various different components -- Google Forms, Firestore, React, Heroku -- while making it pass PWA standards.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Getting an end-to-end MVP, which we were able to deploy to a small set of people.
What we learned
DevOps.
What's next for RoNA
We hope to reach country-wide adoption, that this would be a self-sustaining way for local businesses to survive these tough times.
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