📚 Project Collaborator Hub

A web-based platform designed to help final-year students find ideal project partners based on skills, interests, and compatibility. The system enables real-time messaging,connecting to Users, profile creation, project posting, and structured collaboration.

💡 Features

• Create and edit student profiles with skills, education,certifications and projects experience.
• Send, accept, or reject collaboration requests.
• Real-time messaging via WebSocket after connection is accepted.
• Add and view posts from other users in the dashboard.
• Browse other users and manage your network.
• Search users based on filter(skills,project experience,location)
• Secure login and registration with validations.
• Clean and responsive frontend design.
• Developed using modular, scalable backend architecture.

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🛠️ Technologies Used

Backend:

• Spring MVC
• Hibernate ORM
• MySQL
• WebSockets (for real-time chat)

Frontend:

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• JSON (for API interaction)

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📸 Screenshots

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🚀 Installation Steps

1. Clone the Repository

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/buildyourteam.git

2. Open the project folder in Eclipse IDE

3. Update the Database Configuration
   Modify the spring-servlet.xml file with your local MySQL database credentials.

4. Configure Apache Tomcat 9 Server

5. Run the Application
   Launch it in your browser using Tomcat (e.g., http://localhost:8080/build_your_team1/login)

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👨‍💻 Developed By

Sohan Nikam

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License – see the LICENSE file for details.

⚠️ Project Status

🚧 Currently Under Development – Features may change and evolve. Contributions are welcome!

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