Our project is all about increasing visibility for small businesses. The platform connects customers with small businesses and provides free, easily accessible analytics to those small businesses.
Inspiration: Our team noticed that small businesses lacked a source of free, easily accessible analytics and often needed more visibility to local people. With Prism, we tried to solve both problems.
What it does: We created a way for customers to connect with local businesses, through a recommendation system and a search function that works with descriptions, names, and tags. Each business has an individual, customizable page that allows them to look at analytics ranging from user feedback to average prices of businesses with similar tags.
How we built it: We created the website with a combination of HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL, and Bootstrap.
Challenges we ran into: We had a difficult time dealing with the platform we worked on. At one point, we had to stop for almost 30 minutes in order to transfer our files from one malfunctioning project to a new project.
Accomplishments that we're proud of: We made our website look sleek and modern, and we’re proud of the user-friendly, responsive interface that we created.
What we learned: We learned about what it means to support small businesses with software, and also learned some technical things along the way.
What's next for Prism: We hope to improve the website and publish it on the internet, so everyone can use it!
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