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Crucible: Project Story

Inspiration

Hackathons often waste valuable time on brainstorming ideas that are either too generic or technically infeasible. We wanted to build an AI co-founder that helps teams generate, refine, and stress-test ideas within their constraints.

What it does

Crucible is an AI-powered project ideation platform. Users provide their theme, constraints, and team size, and Crucible generates a tailored project proposal. They can then refine the idea through an AI chat, collaborate with teammates, and develop the problem statement, features, and technical stack.

How we built it

• Frontend: React + Vite
• Backend: FastAPI + Pydantic
• AI: Featherless AI APIs for model inference and structured AI outputs
• Database: Supabase PostgreSQL
• Real-time: Server-Sent Events (SSE)
• Auth: Google OAuth + email/password

Challenges

Maintaining reliable structured JSON outputs, synchronizing real-time SSE streams with frontend state, and debugging asynchronous backend issues were our biggest challenges.

Accomplishments

We built a polished real-time ideation workflow, integrated authentication and collaboration, and deployed a separated Vercel + Render architecture during the hackathon.

What's next

• Multi-agent debate between Feasibility, Technical, and Skeptic agents
• Automatic MVP roadmaps and Kanban boards
• GitHub-based code scaffolding

Built With

• agent2agent
• fastapi
• featherless-ai
• google-oauth
• postgresql
• pydantic
• python
• react
• render
• supabase
• vercel
• vite