Genepedia

Genepedia is a Wikipedia-like site for AI tools. Discover, submit, and edit AI services. Just enter a tool's URL—info and icons are auto-generated. Make quick edits and publish with ease.

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🛠️ Genepedia - BOLT.NEW Hackathon Submission

💡 Inspiration
“There are too many AI tools — I have no idea what to choose anymore.”

With new generative AI services launching almost daily, I kept hearing comments like:

  • 🔍 “Which ones are actually useful? It’s hard to compare.”
  • 🤯 “It’s exhausting to search when the info is scattered.”
  • 🧭 “It’s way too overwhelming for beginners.”

I wanted to do something to bring clarity to this chaos. That’s how the idea for Genepedia began.

“Let’s build a community-driven encyclopedia for AI tools.”

A system like Wikipedia — editable by anyone — combined with AI that helps generate the initial content.
I believed this could help bridge the information gap.
And thanks to BOLT.NEW, even someone without engineering skills could make that vision real.

🎓 What We Learned

  • You can build a service with natural language alone: With the right prompts, even non-engineers can create a full-fledged web service.

  • AI excels at gathering and organizing, but humans are essential for quality: Gemini’s auto-summaries are helpful, but nuance and clarity still require human review.

  • Balance between editability and reliability: Open editing is powerful, but maintaining trust requires systems like revision history and deletion requests.

⚙️ How We Built It
Tool: BOLT.NEW (vibe-coding environment)
Code: Not a single line written manually — everything was built through natural language prompts.

Tech Stack (auto-generated):

  • Frontend: React 18 + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS
  • Backend: Supabase + PostgreSQL + 8 Edge Functions
  • AI Integration: Gemini 2.0 Flash API + Google Custom Search API

Key Features Implemented:

  • 🔗 Auto-generates metadata and tool descriptions from URLs (via Gemini)
  • 📝 Wikipedia-style UI that allows open editing and additions
  • 🔄 Revision history for all edits
  • 🚨 Democratic deletion request system
  • 🔍 Filtering and fast search support

🚧 Challenges We Faced

1. Inconsistencies and gaps in AI-generated summaries
Gemini’s summaries sometimes lacked clarity or detail.
✅ Solution: Enable user edits, deletion requests, and revision tracking

2. Prompt engineering challenges
Sometimes the platform didn’t understand “what I wanted to do.”
✅ Solution: Use analogies and references to explain, e.g., “like Wikipedia”

3. Fine-tuning the UI
It wasn’t always easy to control layout or spacing.
✅ Solution: Prioritized accessibility and usability over perfection

🎉 What We’re Proud Of

  • 🤖 Successfully implementing human–AI collaboration
  • 🧑‍💻 Proving that even non-engineers can build functional web services
  • 🌐 Creating a highly functional product entirely within BOLT.NEW
  • 📚 Transforming “search” into a collaborative, editable tool catalog

🚀 What’s Next

  • 🎨 Finish the difference-view UI (highlighting AI vs user edits)
  • 📱 Launch mobile app version
  • 🌍 Add multilingual support (English ⇄ Japanese)
  • 📈 Visualize popular tools and page view stats
  • 🤝 Public API for external submissions and scalability

🙏 Closing
Genepedia was only possible because of the “magical” development environment that is BOLT.NEW.

Without writing a single line of code or relying on other AI tools, this project was built purely through prompts and passion.
That experience has become a driving force for future creations.

Thank you.

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