📊 MarketPulse — Customer Feedback Dashboard for SMEs
📊 MarketPulse — Customer Feedback Dashboard for SMEs
A real-time AI feedback dashboard for Ghanaian small businesses. The project most likely to turn into a startup after the bootcamp.
Group size: 3-4 · Duration: 1 week · Awards: 5 categories
🎯 What you’re building
Customers scan a QR code → submit feedback through a Streamlit form. The app:
- Runs Comprehend for sentiment + entities
- Stores results in DynamoDB
- Sends SNS alerts to the owner if feedback is strongly negative
- Shows the owner a beautiful dashboard with charts, top entities, and recent reviews
🛠️ AWS services
- EC2 — multi-page Streamlit app (customer form + owner dashboard)
- Comprehend — sentiment analysis + entity extraction
- DynamoDB — feedback storage
- SNS — real-time alerts on negative feedback
- CloudWatch — app + service monitoring
👥 Team roles
- Frontend Lead — the customer form + owner dashboard
- Backend Lead — Comprehend wiring + DynamoDB schema + SNS triggers
- AWS Engineer — EC2, IAM, security groups
- Product & Demo Lead — talk to real Accra businesses + presentation
📖 The full walkthrough
Open GroupProject2_MarketPulse_Feedback.html in your browser. It’s an 8-phase guided build with code, AWS setup, EC2 deployment, polish checklist, demo prep, and award criteria.
The walkthrough is self-contained — no internet needed once you have the file.
💡 Strategic tip for this project
Get 1-2 REAL businesses to use it before demo day. Auntie Akos, a salon, a barber, anyone. Their actual name + their actual feedback in your demo = automatic credibility. Judges remember authenticity.
🏅 Awards (5 categories)
| 🎨 Most Polished | 💡 Most Innovative | 🎤 Best Demo | 📚 Best Documentation | ❤️ People’s Choice | |—|—|—|—|—|
Read the 🏆 Awards section of the walkthrough for what specifically wins each one for THIS project.