Hackgen AI

🌟 Inspiration

As a student and frequent hackathon participant, I often saw people struggling with the same problem:

“I want to join this hackathon... but what should I build?”

Finding a unique idea — and the resources to build it — often took more time than the actual building. That’s when I thought:

“What if there was a platform that automatically generates hackathon ideas based on domain and skill level, and even finds similar real-world projects online for reference?”

That idea became Hackgen ai — a smart assistant for creators, students, and innovators.

⚒️ How I Built It

🧠 Tools & Tech:

Bolt.new: Used as the platform to build and deploy the project quickly with a no-code/low-code interface. Mistral AI: Powering the idea generation with a lightweight, fast, and creative LLM. Custom Prompting: I crafted tailored prompts to generate ideas by domain (e.g. Healthcare, Space, Finance) and by level (Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced). Web Scraping Agent (Planned/Prototype):

Currently integrating a scraping agent (via Python or n8n) to pull similar ideas from:

Devpost
 GitHub
 Medium
Reddit

The goal is to help users not just get an idea, but see real-world implementations instantly.

💡 Features

• 🎯 Level-wise Idea Generator: Suggests projects based on user’s skill level.
• 🌐 Web Reference Fetcher: (In progress) Finds similar projects from the web to help users learn from them.
• 💬 Clean UI: Built using Bolt’s simple blocks, making the experience intuitive and fast.
• 🔁 Expandable System:Future-ready architecture for adding collaboration tools or AI mentor bots.

🧠 What I Learned

How to prompt Mistral AI effectively for idea generation. How to create modular tools using Bolt.new without traditional coding. Basics of web scraping pipelines and automation tools like n8n. Designing for non-technical users — keeping UI minimal but functional.

🧗‍♂️ Challenges Faced

• Bolt.new is powerful but requires creative thinking to work around its limitations (e.g., in dynamic scraping).
• Tuning Mistral prompts to avoid generic outputs and encourage more unique, actionable ideas.
• Scraping reliable, relevant links from the web while avoiding low-quality or irrelevant content.
• Keeping the interface clean while allowing enough user customization.

🚀 What's Next

• 🔍 Integrate scraping agent fully using n8n or external API.
• 🧑‍💻 Add GitHub repo generators based on selected ideas.
• 📄 Enable PDF export or roadmap generation for each idea.
• 🗳️ Add upvote system to surface the best ideas in each domain.
• 🤖 Add an AI mentor chatbot to guide the user in turning the idea into a working project.

🙌 Final Thought

Hackgen ai isn’t just an idea generator — it’s a "creative partner for every builder". Whether you’re a beginner looking to start, or an advanced coder seeking unique inspiration, this platform gets you building faster, smarter, and better.

Built With

• added-lottie-animations-for-ui-enhancement
• bolt.new(react)(node.js)
• integrated-mistral-ai-for-idea-generation
• lottieanimation
• mistralai
• n8n