Your one-step DESTINATION! Mark a home away from home.

BudgetStay is a budget-friendly accommodation specially designed for students to provide clean and hygienic homes away from home. After all, we all love our home as much as we love our food.

MEME

This product is dedicated to providing affordable and comfortable places to stay, making hostels and flats accessible and convenient for those on a budget. BudgetStay lets you sell a property or you can rent a living space. These properties are carefully selected and maintained to ensure high standards of hygiene, providing students with a safe and healthy environment to build their careers. Whether you're traveling for college purposes or business meetings, BudgetStay offers a cost-effective solution for your accommodation needs.

How we solve the existing problem?

The major aspect of making this platform is providing free of cost, easily accessible to all and to provide better user experience. Nowadays, finding a space to live has become so much easier. But you don’t get the guaranty of being secure. BudgetStay promises you security and safety first. Trust us, find a home, and thank us later when you leave.

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1. In regards to hostels/flats, we understand your concerns. Your security is our top priority!
2. We are the ones who have dealt with this problem, so keep your faith in us. You're in good shape with us.
3. We also appreciate the clean, hygienic environment you enjoy, and we aim to provide that in your new home as well.

ideas:

location : student can see the owner’s location and vice-versa

1. Inspiration: BudgetStay is highly inspired by the struggles of students in finding living spaces outside their homes. BudgetStay is a budget-friendly accommodation specially designed for students to provide clean and hygienic homes away from home.

2. What it does: As the name "BudgetStay" suggests, the website provides budget-friendly accommodation options such as hostels, PGs, or flats. Users can browse and compare prices, amenities, and locations of different accommodations on the website, and book a stay that suits their budget and needs without any brokerage fees.

3. How we built it: A 36-hour long hackathon made us execute our idea of making it easy to find budget-friendly stays. We’ve used modern technologies to implement our ideation. It won’t impossible without teamwork and flawless coordination

   1. Figma for User flow & UI designing.
   2. Next js for frontend development.
   3. Node js for backend development.
   4. Appwrite for Authentication purpose.
   5. Chakra UI Component library.
   6. Algolia search API is used for searching purposes.

4. Challenges we ran into: While making this student-driven website, we encountered many challenges like how to configure appwrite within our website and openai setup. We did multiple design iterations in less time. How to collect data and list data using Algolia search API

5. Accomplishments that we're proud of: Seamless User Experience that led us to feasibility, Integrated WhatsApp with Twilio in our website which made it for Students to contact the owner. Dealing with a broker takes time and money, but we have made it easy without any brokerage fees