Tools for Small Businesses

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Ribbon
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Project
Academic experience
80 hours of work total
Student
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Intermediate level

Project scope

Categories
UI design UX design Website development
Skills
git (version control system) calculators marketing react.js (javascript library) research
Details

Ribbon (https://getribbon.ai) is on a mission to make business simple for Canadian entrepreneurs. As part of our marketing efforts we create material that we put in a resources section of our website (https://resources.getribbon.ai). We are expanding into a tax offering and want to add tools/calculators that Canadian entrepreneurs can use to make their lives easier.


This will involve several different steps for the students, including:

  • Research and understanding a specific common question. Likely this will involve reading a lot of reddit posts.
  • Digging into government regulations.
  • Creating a couple options of what the design/functionality could look like.
  • Implementing a tool/calculator in a single page React App.


Deliverables

By the end of the project, students should demonstrate:

  • Research and understanding a specific common question. Likely this will involve reading a lot of reddit posts.
  • Digging into government regulations.
  • Creating a couple options of what the design/functionality could look like.
  • Implementing a tool/calculator in a single page React App.


Final deliverables should include

  • Source Code for a Single page React based tool. The source code will be submitted through a git branch. The Ribbon team will share the relevant git repo with you.
  • We will work together to deploy into production and check the tools for bugs
  • Check out https://resources.getribbon.ai to see our resources section where the tool would be posted. The tool should play nice with Docusaurus the system we use to power our reasources section (https://docusaurus.io/).
Mentorship
  • Office space + Free coffee
  • Our customer and industry insights
  • The ability to understand how to look at marketing for early stage companies


About the company

Company
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2 - 10 employees
Banking & finance, Business & management, Business services

Ribbon is an Operating System for Small Businesses that provides core administrative services such as legal, tax, finance, and HR.

Canadian Small Business Owners find business administration to be confusing and costly.

Ribbon’s mission is to make it as easy to run a company as it is to have a job.

Ribbon is an early stage startup, office space available to work out of if you are in the Toronto area.