Avocado (Formerly BrushUp)

Inspiration

A major source of inspiration was our own struggles when studying and not finding good enough tools.

What it does

A science-based course analysis tool that understands information density and difficulty of topics to create dynamic, personalized, and structured quiz generation.

How we built it

We did initial research by interviewing people and then investigated competitors. We then spent the ideation phase figuring out the tech stack and features. After that, it all came down to the coding.

Challenges we ran into

We made multiple pivots due to scope creep, which led to our ideas sometimes deviating from our initial problem statement. Grounding our scope and developing a complete application in time for the deadline was our major challenge.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The algorithms and technical solutions we came up with to prototype our vision. Crafting that vision was also highly rewarding, as we are people who faced those issues ourselves and have now designed a solution that addresses those problems.

What we learned

We spent a lot of time in the ideation phase, so a big takeaway was to prototype more and more often. A lean approach could've limited our scope creep issue and allowed us to become more customer-oriented faster.

What's next for Avocado (Formerly BrushUp)

Fully implement and realize our vision, including planned features like integration with existing services like Notion and Google Calendar, more personalization (e.g., ability to adjust content priorities based on deadlines), advanced progress tracking, an AI chat tutoring agent that explains concepts you get wrong, and deeper integration of science-backed learning techniques like the Feynman technique, content priming, spaced repetition, interleaving, and more.

Built With

• amazon-web-services
• fastapi
• gemini
• mongodb
• next.js
• python