Hey We’re Open – Haley Holden

Hey We’re Open is a website I made with the other Notre Dame computer science students who were abroad in Dublin with me. We wanted to make a website where local businesses could post menus / specials / availability during quarantine. We noticed each of our towns’ Facebook groups had recommendations for places to get takeout, in hopes of keeping small businesses alive in a difficult time. We used Python Flask for the back end logic, a MySQL database for all the business’ information, and HTML / CSS and JavaScript for the front end display. The website was live at HeyWereOpen.com for the first few months of quarantine, and at its peak had over 100 businesses. All the code for the website can be found here.

All the businesses are sorted by city, state and town. We used JavaScript to give predictive search suggestions based on the cities in the database.

The businesses for a given city are searchable by name and keywords.

An individual entry has the business’s contact information, a pdf of any information they’d like to display, and an image of the products they offer.

Business owners can join for free, and the process takes five minutes. After an administrator approves the entry, the business is posted for the given city / state / country.

Hey We’re Open

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