Inspiration
We were tired of group study sessions where everyone had the same PDF and nobody had read it.
What it does
Learnify turns any PDF into a live multiplayer quiz room in seconds, then gives each player their own SWOT, a study plan and XP for what they learned.
How we built it
Next.js, Upstash Redis and an LLM on Groq, with no websockets: every phone polls and the server works out the game state from the clock.
Challenges we ran into
Keeping multiplayer fair and in sync on serverless with no sockets, while never leaking the right answer before the reveal, and exact sync was also a problem
Accomplishments that we’re proud of
A full live game with a host-editable quiz, QR join and a personal study plan, all running on free tiers.
What we learned
Deriving everything from time instead of stored state made multiplayer much simpler than we expected.
What’s next for Learnify
Accounts and synced progress, scanned-PDF support, and classroom mode for teachers, with 1v1 duel boss battles with health bar and ads and freemium features and minigames for monetization of the app
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