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Hire Harlem

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about

A website that helped people find and support minority-owned businesses — starting in Harlem, NY and expanding to Oakland, CA. Pure passion project: a small team of us carved out every Sunday to work on it, driven by the belief that visibility for these businesses actually mattered. Read more on Medium.

contributions
  1. complete redesign and rebuild of the site from the ground up using React.js, Redux, and Express.js
  2. reconstructed the back-end, migrating to MongoDB with a new Express.js API
  3. collaborated closely with designers and project managers every week to keep the work moving and the vision coherent
screenshots
Live site Original site Figma designs