AIdea

Inspiration

One of the hardest parts of building a startup is finding the right idea. What problem does this product solve? Will solving it bring real value to others? The problem is... finding a problem! This struggle for ideas is what inspired us. Startups, developers, and open-source communities often wrestle with identifying real-world challenges. Usually, it takes countless hours of research—or a rare spark of inspiration—to uncover that breakthrough idea. But with AIdea, we wanted to create something that could help shorten that journey.

What it does

Our focus is to find real-world problems, with real-world use cases, from real-world people. Thus, we chose Reddit! Around 97 million people use Reddit daily, and they post about issues and problems they are facing in various subreddits. Our app uses the Reddit API to pull data from various subreddits, and uses the Gemini API to clean up the data and categorize the problem users are facing into various categories, eg. finance, education, productivity. Interested devs and startup founders can comment under each problem and come up with a solution, where the top solution will be pinned. If a comment gains a lot of upvotes, a github repositiry will be created for that problem and people who are interested can work on the project together.

How we built it

UI/UX: Figma Front end: React Backend: fastapi Database: PostgreSQL

Challenges we ran into

We had our ideas laid out smoothly, so we knew what we had to do. The main obstruction was time, so we did not manage to integrate all our backend endpoints to the frontend.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We managed to deploy the frontend on Vercel, and both the backend and database on Render.

What we learned

We learned how to work together as a team. Each of us were in charge of something, eg frontend, design, backend btu ultimately we had to integrate everything for our ideas to work. We really utilized communication to get our ideas across.

What's next for AIdea

We are intending to expand the database to store from more subreddits. We also would finish some features like being able to log in with a google and github account, finishing the learn more section in the landing page, and cleaning up the UI. We also want to work on features that enhance collaboration between devs.