Motren Connect

A tech-driven platform aimed at connecting freelancers, volunteers, orphaned children, and senior citizens to work collaboratively on projects and social causes. It blends social impact with productivity, providing a structured, rewarding ecosystem for contributors.The main goal is to build a community-focused freelance/volunteer platform that empowers underrepresented groups while encouraging skilled individuals to contribute meaningfully and get recognized/rewarded.

🚀 Project Vision

The goal of Motren Connect is to create a collaborative social-tech ecosystem where users from various backgrounds can:

• Contribute to impactful projects
• Get recognized and rewarded
• Build social capital
• Support underserved communities
• Skilled professionals contribute to real-world problems
• Underserved communities receive mentorship and opportunities
• Contributors are rewarded with points, badges, and recognition
• Organizations and NGOs can easily onboard and manage impact-based projects

Motren Connect blends productivity and purpose, enabling a freelance-style model with a heart

🧭 SDG Goals Aligned

Motren Connect contributes toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals:

• 🧓 SDG 1: No Poverty
• 📘 SDG 4: Quality Education
• 🧑‍💼 SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
• ♿ SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities
• 🤝 SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

🔧 Features

👤 User Roles

• Person: Contributors including freelancers, volunteers, orphans, and senior citizens
• Team Members: MC Controllers, Volunteers
• General Users: Visitors, Investors, Organizers

🧠 Key Modules

• 🧑‍💻 Freelance Marketplace for Developers, Designers, Marketers, and more
• 🔐 Role-Based Authentication (Contributors, Clients, Admins)
• 🎯 AI-Based Project Matching for contributors
• 📣 Notification System (Person, General, Team)
• 🏆 Gamification & Rewards: Points, Fund Grades, Redeemables
• 🎓 Mentorship Module for connecting freelancers to underprivileged learners
• 📅 Events & Accelerators for hackathons, meetups, and project launches
• 🔁 Contribution Tracker to visualize social impact
• 🎯 AI-Based Poverty Detection to mark the event Place
• 🧠 Power BI Dashboard Visual analytics for contributors & team admins
• 👤 AI-Based Developer Suggestion to avoid fraud assolts

🛠 Tech Stack

Layer	Tech Used
Frontend	React, Tailwind CSS, Redux
Backend	Node.js, Express.js
Utilites	Cloudinary , Passportjs , plupetter (Web Scraping)
Database	MongoDB
Auth	Firebase, Google OAuth
AI/ML	LLMs for project matching, poverty detection , Freelancer's validation
Analytics	Power BI (via data exports or APIs)
DevOps	Vercel / Render / AWS (for MVP hosting)

👨‍💻 Getting Started

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/bharath-2634/MotrenConnect-MVP.git

Environment Variables

Create a .env file in the server folder and provide the following variables:

GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET = your-secret-id; GOOGLE_OAUTH = your-oauth-id; CONNECTION_URL = your-mongoDb-connection-url;

CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your-cloudinary-cloud-name CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=your-cloudinary-api-key CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=your-cloudinary-api-secret

RAZORPAY_KEY_ID = your-razorpay-key-id RAZORPAY_SECRET = your-razorpay-secret-id

Install dependencies

cd client && npm install
cd ../server && npm install

Run Client Side

npm run dev

Run Server side

npm run dev

NOTE : change the port on server.js file on server side on your own interest

Working Prototype and Screenshots

1. Authentication Module

   

2. Home Module

   

3. Acceleration Module