Academix

Yup, an earlier version of Academix.
Cool task tracking bar, am I right? ;) Rumors have it that there's an editable timeline of your efforts towards an app on this page...
Nothing like a profile that you can customize. :)
Analytics Page
Hey, look! Toggle-able calendar!
Whoa, are those filters I see? :O
What?! You can also drag out the size of the textboxes too?
Did you hear about the feature where you can even keep "tabs" (pun-intended) on your regional admissions officer? :O

Inspiration

Every student knows the chaos of internship, job, and college applications—dozens of tabs open, deadlines scattered across emails, skills buried in long descriptions, and follow‑ups forgotten. I’ve lived that chaos myself, especially as a first-generation college student. I wanted a tool that didn’t just store links, but actually understood each opportunity and helped me stay organized, confident, and on track.

Academix was born from one question: “Why does tracking applications feel harder than applying?” I wanted to build something that finally fixes that and helps a person acknowledge how far they've come by allowing them to create their own timeline of what actions they've taken towards their applications!

Additionally, so many college and job applications have similar skills; what better way to develop an idea of what skills to work on than to track analytics of how many times specific skills are mentioned across all the college/job applications of interest that you've saved? :D If you're fighting procrastination, you can even set personal deadlines for yourself before the final deadline of the application! :)

Here's to Academix: A tracker for a mix of your academic and professional journey to success! Work hard, study hard, but also celebrate your milestones via a timeline that you can add your own actions to!

What it does

Academix is an AI‑powered command center for managing internships, jobs, and college applications. It automatically extracts key information from any application URL and organizes it into a clean, adjustable three‑pane dashboard.

Academix helps users:

Track all applications in one place
Auto‑extract deadlines, skills, descriptions, and requirements
Set personal completion deadlines
Manage follow‑ups and reminders
Keep notes, tasks, and (customizable) timelines
View analytics about progress, skills, and outcomes
Customize their profile and settings
Instead of 100 open tabs, everything you need lives in one calm, readable workspace.

How we built it

Next.js + React for the core UI
Tailwind CSS for a pastel‑gradient, student‑friendly design
Custom scraping logic (Cheerio) to parse job and program postings -A unified data model that powers both the dashboard and analytics
AI‑extracted skills to help users understand what each opportunity requires
Local + cloud storage for saving applications and user preferences

The three‑pane layout was designed to reduce cognitive load:

Pane 1: Navigation + application list
Pane 2: Main details (overview, description, notes)
Pane 3: Metadata (deadlines, tasks, skills board, timeline, contacts)

The analytics page computes everything directly from the application data model, ensuring accuracy and consistency.

Challenges we ran into

Designing a UI that stays readable across dark gradients and pastel backgrounds
Ensuring scraping works across different job boards and college sites
Keeping analytics perfectly aligned with the underlying data
Building a flexible skills board that merges AI‑extracted skills with user‑added ones
Managing state across multiple panes without breaking layout
Creating a system that feels powerful but not overwhelming

The hardest part was balancing automation with user control—letting AI alter the code while also going in to add human innovation and designs to the elements was the toughest; I decline to comment on the number of hours I sat manually searching up hex codes and praying to dear god that my sense of color theory from elementary school did not abandon me. ;)

Accomplishments that we're proud of

A fully functional three‑pane dashboard with a clean, modern aesthetic
Automatic extraction of deadlines, skills, descriptions, and locations
A customizable profile and settings page
A complete analytics page showing categories, statuses, outcomes, skills, and timelines
A readable, pastel‑gradient UI that feels calm and approachable
A system that genuinely reduces stress for students managing applications

Academix is a tool that I wish I had years ago—and now it exists! :)