The problem 0-meets-1 solves

Problem: These days all we come across and care about are successes - the product that hits the market, an idea that won a hackathon etc. But there will be a lot of ideas or products with potential, which never got to see a light because it never reached its destined hands or maybe the right environment. Almost 90% of startup ideas fail, and the idea gets stuck in the wave without being used by any.

Solution: Here we want to provide a platform for people to share the lessons they learnt, the mistakes they made so that people who might find a spark in those ideas can take them up and develop them into successful products/ ventures after analysing what actually went wrong => Creating something, out of nothing. Here people can post their ideas and details about startups ( funding rounds, description, history etc) which others can see and take up. The seller and buyer can also connect and chat in real-time. This would help them to discuss more on the idea. Any events related to startups can also be posted here.

Future plan: We also plan on implementing a subscription option for the startups so that someone who's keen on the idea can get updates on it. Payment gateway using stripe is to be implemented for enabling smoother transaction in the platform.

Challenges we ran into

Implementing a real-time chat feature for the web app was a challenging task as it was our first time attempting it. We used Django channels to handle the WebSockets and chat protocols. Being beginners, the task we had at hand was confusing. We wanted to do many features, but we had to restrict them to a few, which we could implement without errors.
We also deployed the site on Heroku, after a lot of builds failed. At first, when faced with challenges, we tried to fix them ourselves and when we had doubts, researched a bit about it and asked our friends who were a little better at Django than us to give us some quick tips.

We also got tips and suggestions from the mentors on different useful features we didn't think about.