The problem Shopiconnect solves

With the Covid-19 pandemic, small and medium size businesses have suffered the most. I felt there was a need for a platform which could connect these small businesses to large communites. And Discord is the where most of the large communities connect! So I came up with the Idea of shopiconnect, A web platform presented to the user with a discord bot that would allow the user to discover small and medium businesses around them or in their city. Shopiconnect lets users in large discord communities find information about these business with just one click after relevant results are displayed by the bot.

How does Shopiconnect help in this?

Shopiconnect is a webplatform with a discord bot. The users can discover businesses around them with this bot. The bot displays results based on location, category and combination of both. The user can then choose from the displayed business and find detailed information like delivery options, locations, contact numbers etc on the Shopiconnect web platform.

How I built it

The project is divided into 3 parts - frontend, backend and the Discord bot. Frontend - Built using ReactJS along with html css and javascript Backend - Built with strapi's headless CMS on top of nodejs backend and postgresSQL database ""Discord Bot** - Built with Nodejs and discord.js

Challenges I ran into

Connecting all the 3 components (frontend, backend and the bot) with each other was a bit challenging.