By Kevin Alfaro, Fatima Diallo, Karlee Wong, and Daniel Rashevsky

We were looking to create something that could strengthen and uplift the bond between UW students and the surrounding community. TheAve allows students to interact more with surrounding businesses and gives businesses a chance to gain the exposure they may have lost due to the pandemic.

TheAve is a community-building and events platform that allows small businesses and groups on The Ave in Seattle to collaborate and host events, giveaways, and deals to reforge bonds after the pandemic.

This repository contains the HTML-ized version of the Webflow site we built, alongside the CMS collections, design document, and screenshots of the live site.

We used LucidChart to diagram all of our site features. This translated directly into Webflow, which is a no-code website builder that allowed us to rapidly build, test, and deploy our platform. It included CMS, which powers our business and event tracking.

In general, we were a pretty agile and fast-paced team, but challenges we ran into included idea generation and not too much prior experience with webflow.

We are proud of the clean and functional website we created, and how rapidly we were able to design and build it. In the real world, this project could prove immensely useful in bringing community together on the Ave after the pandemic.

We learned just how fast-paced a hackathon is, even requiring an all-nighter. We also learned a new tool, Webflow, and how beneficial a good group dynamic is to getting things done.

We hope to expand our services cover the whole Ave by marketing and talking to individual business owners, and make TheAve a platform of choice for fostering community in Seattle.

Live site: Link

Our demo video: Link

Cloneable Webflow Project: Link

DevPost project page: Link

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