digest.ai

UNFINISHED

What is it? What does it do?

It's a full-stack application that allows you to quickly get a summary of any document you wish. Could be a university paper, a textbook, a novel, or divorce papers, the possibilities are endless. With our shrinking attention span, reading is too hard for many now.

Plenty of tech companies have been working on Natural Language Processing (NLP) AI algorithms for this exact purpose, so seeing the value of such a project is not difficult. With more development, we could easily consider this project startup worthy.

How we built it

Flutter, Dart to make the application and have it run on all devices. Firebase, we implemented a whole login user feature with a firebase database. OpenAI, the chatgpt API, because it's the most famous and accessible NLP AI out there, Microsoft Immersive Reader API to read urls.

Challenges we ran into

Time was our biggest constraint in this hackathon, and we could accomplish much more with more time. Because ChatGPT is constantly at capacity, getting consistent performance with the API seems to have been our biggest challenge. This was our first time with Firebase, so implementing a login screen was hell, and took too much of our time.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Creating a Full Stack application in 24 hours is impressive and that's what we're most proud of.

What's next for digest.ai or parsnip

We want to give users the option to choose between many different NLP API from different companies. Since Flutter creates javascript code, we want to create a Google Chrome extension for our project. In the future, we will even create our own NLP algorithm.

WIP