work-at-a-startup
Work at a Startup :sparkles:
Brite is an exciting early-stage startup focusing on improving career and offering opportunities to students. They host several competitions, quizzes, case studies, hackathons, contests etc. throughout the year, in various fields for students to participate at a minimal charge as well as offer internships opportunities to beginners, along with blogging facilities. Winners of their competitions get a chance to showcase their entries in our achiever’s blog. Visit their website for details.
This is the codebase of Brite website. Any changes pushed to this repository will be directly reflected in the website.
This website is made using Jekyll. Please read the docs to understand the site structure, set up your local computer and to make any further meaningful contributions.
Getting Started :+1:
- Clone this repository.
- Navigate into the main directory.
- Then, in the terminal, copy and paste the following command:
bundle exec jekyll serve
Updates :hourglass:
Currently, lot of changes need to be done as far the business is concerned:
- Fix broken links
- Create a logo
- Add the logo as favicon
- Create a AI-based chatbot for frequently asked questions(FAQs) about the business and integrate them to the frontend
- Add a common payment gateway for all competitions, i.e migrate from old method of UPI/NEFT payment through e-mail to include more flexiblity(card payment) and also ease the process through one-click payments.
- Add a new opportunity(details to be shared), with the new payment gateway
- Enabling functionality to comment on posts, so that any doubts about any particular listing may come into account as be resolved as soon as possible.
- Remove redundant pages for SEO(i.e Search Engine Optimization, more pages and/or media increases loading time, which in turn affect search engine rankings)
- Update documentation
and many more.