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TEAM
Team Tox
(Special Mention)
Team members:
NewsHunter
NewsHunter is a website where you can collect and organise news into different buckets, as well as browse other user’s collections. (Think Pinterest, but for news)
What inspired you to build this app?
News is everywhere, but sometimes it’s hard to organize. That’s why we come up with an idea/app that gives people a place to collect the news they love and easily share it with friends and family. more like a pinterest boards.
- User can store and organize the news into different folders.
- User can view/follow other’s folders and also create new folders for different topics.
What are the benefits of using NewsHunter?
- Users can save their favorite articles for future reference
- Users can see what their friends (followed users) saved and decide what to read next.
- If the user want to know more about the World Cup then user can go through the collections of the respective users who have already saved their collections
- Organized news can also be used to study about history. For example, find information on a stock market crash and find out how it affected the economy, or use it to compare two historical events.
Which Catalyst features did you use to build the app?
- User Authentication: It is used to auth the user (Email auth)
- Relational Datastore: We are saving news, so we use these databases as primary storage to store news items.
- Functions: All external APIs are called using functions (News API).
- FileStore (optional): It is used to store user profile pic. It is mostly optional.
TEAM
Brain Solutions
(Winner)
Units Overzichten (Dutch)
The app is an integration of Zoho Catalyst in Zoho CRM to show Units (apartments on sale) in a visual way.
What inspired you to build this app?
The inspiration to build the Units Overzichten app came from a need to find a more structured solution than Excel for a large property developer in Belgium. The client had 15 brokers selling their properties, and their business processes were primarily kept in Excel spreadsheets. This method was prone to manual errors, double data input, and even loss of data. They needed a more structured solution, something where they can visualize the different apartment buildings with color coding.
What are the benefits of using Units Overzichten?
The Units Overzichten app offers several benefits to the client, including:
- Offers a more structured solution than Excel
- Reduces manual errors and provides better business intelligence
- Converts the sales process to a “shopping basket” format, making it easier and more intuitive for brokers and clients
- Integrates with Zoho CRM, allowing for seamless data sharing and better customer relationship management
- Units Overzichten can be accessed as a tab in Zoho CRM or as a standalone app for Android and iOS devices.
Which Catalyst features did you use to build the extension?
The development team utilized several Catalyst features to build the Units Overzichten app.
- They leveraged the ability to keep the “look and feel” of Excel while integrating business intelligence into Catalyst to make checks and calculations on the data.
- They integrated the Catalyst widget with the data from Zoho CRM to allow for seamless data sharing and better customer relationship management.
TEAM
A2Z Cloud
(Special Mention)
Team members:
Zoho Creator to Github extension
A Zoho google chrome extension with an embedded Zoho Catalyst client that allows users to easily commit code while using the online Deluge editor within Zoho Creator.
Github: https://github.com/A2Z-Cloud/a2z-hackathon-github-extension
What inspired you to build this app?
- The complexity of configuration management on various software platforms used by businesses these days inspired the creation of this app.
- The proposed solution is a GitHub browser extension hosted on Catalyst that will simplify the configuration management process.
- The extension will pull configuration components from Zoho settings pages and commit them to Github for backup and version control.
What are the benefits of using Zoho Creator to Github extension?
- Disaster recovery of system configuration is possible by using this extension.
- Version control in Github allows administrators to review changes to configuration over time or return to older working versions.
- Leveraging features of Github such as branches, pull requests, etc. is possible with this extension.
- It is more efficient than manual copy and paste backups.
- This extension has the potential for extension into various platforms.
Which Catalyst features did you use to build the extension?
- The Advanced I/O project feature of Catalyst was used to provide a full stack application for the Github client component that will be framed into the browser extension.
- The component will act as a widget to complete the code commit, with the code itself scraped from the HTML of the page and passed to the widget.
- Oauth will be used to connect and commit to Github.