Rel8 | Devpost

Inspiration

We have often been asked to explain terms and were unable to relate them to something the person asking can understand. With this website we can easily generate explanations in terms of categories almost all people understand.

What it does

Rel8 takes a term or phrase that the user does not understand and attempts to explain it in simpler terms that the user will understand. It does this using geminis gemini 2.5 flash api and preset prompts we made.

How we built it

We started by making a simple text input box and just ran it through the gemini api by sending it through a string prompt. Once we successfully got a response we split up and started working on the gui and backend in teams of 2. The frontend focused on making the website userfirendly and the backend team worked on the firebase to save user inputs and history and setting up google auth.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into multiple challenges during our development including getting rate limited while testing the different outputs, graphical challenges when it came to viewing the site on different size and resolutions screens, and setting up the firebase to correctly store the input and output as well as be able to retrieve the input and output from the site for the history tab.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are very proud that we were able to successfully combine a front and backend while also leveraging an ai api.

What we learned

We learned a lot about how projects work especially in the sense of github. We ran into problems with multiple people editing the same files which would lead to merge conflicts and it taught us the importance of version control and even just using separate files to avoid conflicts.

What's next for Rel8

We plan on adding a search feature for the history tab as well as adding a new chat button which will clear out all of the input fields which would allow for easier use when searching multiple terms.