🚀 Entrepreneurs Connect

A community platform for ambitious founders. Entrepreneurs Connect is a full-stack MERN application where entrepreneurs connect, collaborate, and grow together — because success is best achieved through shared experiences and collective wisdom.

 

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✨ Features

• 🔐 Secure authentication — JWT-based auth with bcrypt-hashed passwords
• 👤 Profiles & community — connect and collaborate with other entrepreneurs
• 🖼️ Media uploads — images stored on AWS S3
• 📧 Transactional emails — onboarding & notifications via Nodemailer
• ⏰ Scheduled jobs — background cron tasks
• ⚡ Snappy UX — Redux state management with a Tailwind + Flowbite UI

🛠️ Tech Stack

Frontend: React · Redux · TailwindCSS · Flowbite  |  Backend: Node.js · Express · MongoDB · JWT · bcrypt · Nodemailer · AWS S3 · node-cron

📸 Screenshots

Add a screenshot or GIF of the feed / profile pages here.

🗂️ Project Structure

EntrepreneursConnect/
├── client/   # React + Redux + Tailwind frontend
└── server/   # Express + MongoDB REST API

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites: Node.js 18+ and a MongoDB connection string.

git clone https://github.com/Sahilll15/EntrepreneursConnect.git
cd EntrepreneursConnect

# --- Backend ---
cd server
npm install
# create .env → MONGO_URI, JWT_SECRET, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, SMTP creds
npm run dev

# --- Frontend (new terminal) ---
cd ../client
npm install
npm start            # http://localhost:3000

📝 License

Released under the MIT License.

_{Built by Sahil Chalke}