exchangebooks.online

Little free library

Inspiration

When we walk in our neighbourhood, we often see little free libraries, a place where you can take or give books. We thought this was a smart and helpful idea, but needed to have more books, and be accessible world wide.

What it does

Exchangebooks.online is a website that enables you to share books that you’ve read, and read books from others, all for free.

How we built it

We brainstormed ideas and chose exchangebooks.online because we felt people would find it most useful. Then we discussed our skill set and used trello to split the tasks and github to share files. We used bootstrap and google cloud to make the website. Throughout the way, we helped each other out.

Challenges we ran into

The main challenge we faced were time zone differences. Our time zones are very different (10 hours apart!) and we had difficulty organising our work. We had to stay up late and wake up early to communicate with each other. Another challenge we faced was getting a domain name. No members in our team had a credit card, so we weren't able to get our desired domain from domain.com.

What’s next

Currently our website is still static. We plan to add databases and user credentials to make it fully functional. Afterwards, we want to open it to the public and get as many users as possible.