MarketConnect

✨ A social platform to allow small businesses to connect with nearby potential customers ✨

🔥 This project was ranked 4th place out of 24 teams at 24 hour YME Hackathon 2021 🔥

screenshots from design prototype, actual screenshots release after refining the project

Problem Statement

Since the pandemic, Malaysia has imposed several lockdowns to curb the spread of COVID-19. This had a significant impact on the residents socially and economically. How can we help our country to recover socially and economically, while following through with the National Recovery Plan (NRP)?.

Inspiration

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many small businesses such as small shop owners and market merchants have lost their main income stream due to tight SOPs and regulations that forbid them from doing their business physically.

However, they are unable to transition themselves onto the online market and are cannot keep up with the online trend due to the lack of familiarity with modern technology.

The livelihood of local grocers is also affected as they are forced to buy from supermarkets and grocery giants.

Our Solution

MarketConnect is a social platform to connect small businesses who are unable to transition to the online market during the pandemic era with potential customers nearby.

• Allows merchants to easily and seamlessly transition partially towards the online market
• Provides more transparency during the trading of goods
• Incurs zero commission fee towards the merchants who are already struggling financially
• Aims to be a localised market distribution in which customers trade with nearby merchants for ease of accesss

Monetization

Since no commission fee is incurred, this solution relies on advertising for long term sustainability. In app messaging and payment systems can also be integrated alongside custom delivery options to allow for a more seamless trading experience between merchants and customers.

References

• Watch the full presentation session here.
  
• Check out the Figma project here.
  
• Check out projects from the other teams here.
  
• Check out the hackathon on DevPost here here.
• Check out YMEGlobal's Facebook page here.
  

_{© 2021 Bryan Soong
with members of Team 15}