The problem Alpha solves

Our product, Alpha. is not just a product but an ecosystem of tools to aid the entire university experience in both the academic and non academic sphere.

Alpha Sphere is an integrated dashboard and issue tracker to automate common issues faced in universities, especially regarding the hostel accomodation.It involves automating room cleaning requests, mess feedback, hostel-related complaint portal, laundry requests, booking medical appointments at the university health center, and much more. Combined with a convenient admin dashboard panel, wherein the administrator can see all requests at one central place and then take action, it indeed is a one-stop solution for hostel management.

Alpha Soul is a minimalistic website that aims to aid the terrible mental health scenario in colleges in India by making college counsellors as well as student volunteer counsellors available to them at the click of a button

Alpha Cube is a social media and blogging tool meant solely for the current students as well as the alumni of the same university. In the times of online education, which has totally changed the dynamic of social and professional interactions as well as networking, it serves as a handy tool to connect, interact and find like-minded batchmates and people with the same interests and skills.

Alpha Square aims to be a centralised platform to facilitate intra-college and intra-hostel buying, selling and trading of items and products.

Challenges we ran into

Being first year students somewhat new into the world of hackathons and developement, one of the primary challenges we faced was deciding the project structure and the overall macro direction we take for implementing our idea. A major hurdle was debugging, fixing errors and getting the comment/discussion portal working in Alpha Cube, which was built using React/Redux and Node.js/Express. It was difficult to trace the errors in the process of figuring out how to get a functioning comment section running, but after spending time brainstorming and experimenting, we were ultimately able to implement it after one sleepless night. Furthermore, deployment was also another area where we were faced challenges, wherein deploying with heroku was not working. To solve it, we found an alternative, and hosted a major subpart of our project by using ngrok.