Beahold

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Inspiration

Beahold is a name I made by combining the words behold and beauty. It was inspired by the everyday interactions most young people I know have, and the conversations we have about social media-influenced beauty standards. "Everyone now looks the same" is a common observation most of us tend to make when looking for style ideas and inspiration online.

At a glance, this may not seem like a big deal or problem. However, the lack of exposure or access to a tool or product that makes uniqueness in self-expression desirable, fun and easy to achieve may have numerous negative impacts on us. Briefly, the less one resembles the social media-set beauty standard, the less beautiful one thinks one is, the less confident, likely to interact with others, happy, one becomes.

In reality, each one of us is more beautiful, both internally and externally than we realize. We just need help expressing our beauty.

What Beahold does

Behold helps users draw inspiration from a lot more than just short-term style trends, or even the surface-level factors that make up an individual's style. It uses AI technology to suggest how a user can improve their unique style using information on literally anything the user prefers, aims for, is interested in, e.t.c. It then uses the specific challenges the user feels and/or knows they have to create actionable solutions for them to implement.

Self-expression goes hand-in-hand with self-esteem, self love and acceptance. Improving these is a journey that may take time. Envisioning and affirming them is one way to improve the journey for the user. That is why Beahold creates a vision board of inspiration and writes positive affirmations personalized for the user.

How I built it

Behold is an AI web app built on AWS PartyRock, powered by Amazon Bedrock. I built is using prompt engineering, with no coding and minimal UI design skills. Understanding prompt engineering was a fundamental skill in building Beahold. The better engineered my prompts were, the better suited my app would be to its target users' needs. Luckily, AWS made it easy for me to brush up on my knowledge of prompt engineering before I started building Beahold.

Challenges I faced

This app is made to help improve self esteem and confidence though maximizing self-expression, and this looks different for every user. Measuring the success of this product / quantifying its impact is the challenge I face currently.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

1. Building this app gave me an opportunity to address a real world problem that affects many people.
2. Seeing the app live after publishing, and the results it gave me after I tested it out.

What we learned

1. How to engineer a prompt: Beahold is built on a LLM, it generates data based on the input given to it and the model in which it is trained. To make it unique from other creative assistants, I learned how to personalize my prompts and make them concise.
2. UX optimization: Although I did not design a full user interface for this app, I had to think about which widgets would be the most important to the user so the user could get to see and interact with them first.

What's next for Beahold

Making it known to users and improving its features.

Built With

• amazon-web-services
• bedrock
• partyrock