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Hackathon: Web App
Project Overview
A three-day small business Hackathon event.
The Prompt:
Build an e-commerce product or feature which supports small businesses in their recovery from the pandemic.
The Team:
Three software engineers, three UX designers and one data scientist.
The Topic:
Hospitality and Travel Sector
The Question:
Since the sector is defined by its in-person experiential component, how can we leverage e-commerce to direct traffic back to local tourism and small business hospitality services?
My Role
Product Development | Project Management
Business Analytics
Focusing on the impact e-commerce has on increasing a business' public profile, and customer accessibility to those businesses' information, we created an app to increase visibility and support of local businesses through a rewards-based gamified experience.
My three-days focused on establishing product cohesion, facilitating interdepartmental communication, and business plan development. I also created an outline for development of client-side features to provide critical business analytical feedback to business from the application.
A decision was made by the software engineering team to utilize a NoSQL database during the three-day sprint. I believe future development of this application would benefit from conversion to a relational database model. I developed an ERD for a proposed MySQL database migration.
