hackathon-projects-backend

HackProInit

Video Demo

HackProInit-Demo

Submitted to MLH Workathon

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Elevator Pitch

A one-stop platform to help build your next hackathon project

Landing Page

Gives a clear overview of the project built and its functionalities using Ant design.

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Backend🔙

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Endpoints

Project idea generator (genreric)

Made use of Cohere (Genreate)

• /projectIdeas ✅

Project idea generator (specific)

Made use of Cohere (Genreate with constraints)

• /projectIdea?topic="" ✅

Project description generator

Made use of Cohere (Genreate)

• /projectDescription?name="" ✅

Project title generator

Made use of Cohere (Genreate)

• /projectTitle?desc="" ✅

Project comparsion (P1 vs P2)

Made use of Cohere (Genreate / Classify)

• /projectCompare`? ❌

Project implementation

Made use of OpenAI API

• /projectImplement?name="" { Need some more working and fine tuning… } ❌

Frontend➬

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Endpoints

Get Ideas

• /ideas ✅

Get Ideas

• /idea ✅

Get Ideas

• /description ✅

Get Ideas

• /title ✅

Get Ideas

• /compare ❌

Get Ideas

• /projectImplement?name="" { Need some more working and fine tuning… } ❗️

Authentication

• Using Twilio Verify (to be integrated)

Inspiration

When I decided to participate in Work-a-thon, initially nothing struck my mind interesting. So I felt many others would once in a while be in such a situation. Hence, I decided to build my own Hackathon project initiator that provides the initial breakthrough kickstart your project.

What it does

As the title suggests, Hack => Hackathon & Pro => Project & Init => Initializer means it acts as a platform to generate project Ideas, Description, Title. These are the bare minimum requirements for any hackathon project submission including devpost.

How we built it

• Cohere (Generate project title, description, comparison)
• Twilio Verify (Authentication)
• GitHub (Most obvious)
• OpenAI (Generate project implementation)
• GoDaddy Registry (Domain)
• React.js (Frontend)
• Node.js (Backend)
• Ant Design & Bootstrap (CSS)

Challenges we ran into

• While building the backend, get the response in the desired format JSON and truncate unwanted stuff.
• After fetching the data from the server and overcoming the CORS error was very hectic and the most time-consuming. I tried all the stuff google, StackOverflow, chatGPT, etc. at last a basic CORS Unblocked chrome extension came to the rescue.
• Building a Landing was something important as most of us don’t give much attention to it. Hence I spent some time building it and faced lots of issues while building. Finally, thanks to AntD that came to the revival.

Accomplishments that we’re proud of

• How to query the prompt or interpret the NLP models to get the best possible results possible.
• Overcoming the CORS error while fetching the data from the server was like getting a college degree I felt like floating in the air.
• Then building a response UI was something cool in a short span of time.
• A desperate, responsive landing page to showcase every bit of my Project was a nice thing.

What we learned

• First of all, never hack alone since I had a long break with hackathons and thought of working solo but never going to attempt it.
• Dealing with CORS and how to break down the errors to get the right solution.

What’s next for HackProInit

• Integrate Authentication (the code exists)
• Work on tech stack thing for project implementation.
• Also provide a comparison of projects while choosing the best out of the two.