The problem CFL: College For Life solves

Our college bot helps people to find their dream course and the colleges which offer it. People these days find it difficult to find the right colleges which meet all their expectations. In the COVID-era, people have switched from offline mode to online mode. They are now using platforms like Zoom, Slack, Discord, Teams, etc. very often.
The need to find the right college is a very pressing one. This bot helps users tackle that problem. We are having a Discord based bot that can interact with users. Users get links to the top 20 college websites of the country, from where they can access more information. This bot can be welcomed in various Discord servers where there are college students, high schoolers, and undergraduate students. It will help them decide their career in an interesting way and will also provide them with a lot of information.
We hope that through our project people can finally find the college that they were made for.

Challenges we ran into

This is the first time that we had to web scrap so much of data from a vast range of websites and come up with some websites that provide accurate and real-time information. We had to create APIs for all the web scraping. The bot could read the input messages in a certain format only and the output was also very specific. We had a hard time debugging it. It was the first time that we had created a Discord based bot. We combined all of our skillsets in order to get over all the hurdles and took help from mentors at every step. The main problem was time. The deadlines were too short. We had to come up with a website and a hosted discord bot in less than 2 days of time. All the members of the team worked remotely, hence it took more time to cooperate and ideate.