The problem DocLock solves

PROBLEM: As we know that throughout the span of our college life, a lot of documents and certificates come our way. Many documents are submitted by us and many more are provided by the institute. The entire process is cumbersome and time-consuming. Also, they are not organized in a single place. For example, we receive our semester certificates only in hardcopy, also the transcript which is available on the site is not well-formatted when downloaded as a PDF. The certificates we receive for events like Avishkar, Culrav, Eloquence, and Hack36 are provided to us in a single drive link, it becomes very time consuming for us to search for our certificate. Also, the event organizers cannot assure the fact that the participant/winner has received his/her certificate. This process can be solved by our idea of "DocLock".

SOLUTION: DocLock is a dedicated one-stop solution for all these problems. The administrative overhead would be reduced at each step, starting from the process of registration to semester results, events certificates and many more. All these things would be just a click away. Whether you want to instantly show your credentials for your skills in an interview or just want to safely save your important documents, DocLock will come to your rescue. But there is a catch to it. These documents will not be stored in a centralized database instead they will be stored in a decentralized manner. For this, we will be using IPFS as its content addressing enables us to store large files off-chain and put immutable, permanent links in transactions.
We plan to automate the file upload system by the admin. So that the concerned documents are linked to that user’s registration number and get automatically uploaded to IPFS.
This idea can be made monetary by providing the entire system to any organization because there are many that are looking forward to an application like “DocLock”. Also, it has many future prospects such as digital document exchange with authentication.

Challenges we ran into

The main challenge faced by our team was while integrating IPFS to our project as we had never worked with it before. But when we read about IPFS, as it is a sponsor of Hack36, we got excited about its technology and tried to integrate it with our existing idea. Initially we found it very difficult to implement, but we tried a lot, read documentations, watched tutorial videos and finally cracked it.