Business Launchpad

Repository for the Founders Program project "Business Launchpad". June 2019

Context

Business Launchpad aims to support young entrepreneurs (16-30) through running free workshops and mentoring sessions with groups and individuals. Part of their work involves collecting and digitizing information related to each individual’s journey in order to both better support them and to inform the future direction of the organization. Business Launchpad came to us asking for an app that would help to facilitate their data collection while also providing something that would be useful for young entrepreneurs. Most of their data is held on Salesforce, often coming through forms created with Form Assembly.

The App

In this first iteration, it functions as a tool to save, view, and check off goals related to their business journeys, particularly when used in conjunction with BL mentors. It also offers the capacity to record reflections upon completing goals, and a resources page hosted on Airtable that is editable by BL employees.

Screenshots

Installation

To view on Heroku visit:

https://businesslaunchpad.herokuapp.com/

To run this project locally for development, run the following commands in your terminal:

Clone repo:

git clone https://github.com/founders-programme-2/business-launchpad.git

In your terminal, navigate into the root of the repo and install dependencies in both the server-side and client-side with the following command:

npm run inst

Navigate back to the root run the express server and React with the following command:

cd .. && npm run dev

Now that you've started the project, you'll need to create a .env file in the root folder of the project. To run our project, contact one of the maintainers for the necessary keys. You can follow the .env.example template for an example of how to structure your .env .

Stack

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

MongoDB and MongoDB Atlas

MongoDB is an open source database management system (DBMS) that uses a document-oriented database model which supports various forms of data.
MongoDB Atlas is a cloud service designed to host the database in

Express

A fast, unopinionated web framework for Node.js

Airtable

Airtable is a platform works like a spreadsheet but gives us the power of a database to organize anything, we're using it to store app stories instead of saving it in the database.