The problem GuideMe solves

1. Numerous study materials are present throughout the web but there is no website where one can land and be confident to find a required resource.
2. As a result, students keep surfing through an endless list of websites, youtube videos and online tutorials looking for the right material and mentor which wastes a lot of their finite time and sometimes also leads to unwanted distractions.
3. With GuideMe, we bring to you the exact solution to this problem. We organize all the resources recommended by peers and mentors. We also allow every student to create courses with useful links to videos, websites and books themselves so that they can also help the student community.
4. With the ongoing pandemic, physical classes are not possible so students are not able to have an interactive discussion. Hence, we address this problem by building an integrated discussion forum at our platform, GuideMe.
5. In some districts of Odisha like Kalahandi, Balangir, Koraput only a handful of students are able to get selected at reputed colleges due to poor mentorship, guidance and lack of proper study materials.

Challenges we ran into

1. More than 50% of our team are first time hackers and each of us is new to the experience of hackathons. Hence, it was a challenge for us to coordinate and distribute our work at first. Moreover, not all of us are acquainted with the tech stack that we have used for our project.
2. It was really challenging for us to integrate our frontend with the backend to fetch and display our data accurately.
3. With the Material UI being recently updated, it became a little problematic initially. Furthermore, using Firebase for our login system was demanding.
4. Nevertheless, we spent hours helping each other and working in a synchronized manner to shape our ideas as best as we could within the time constraint.