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🔥 ScholarHunt - AI Scholarship Aggregator

Inspiration

Students waste 40+ hours searching for scholarships across fragmented websites. Most miss critical deadlines, losing out on thousands of dollars in funding. I built ScholarHunt to make sure no student ever misses a scholarship deadline again through AI matching and military-grade deadline tracking.

What it does

ScholarHunt is an AI-powered scholarship command center that:

🤖 AI Match Scoring: Uses Google Gemini to analyze your profile and provide 0-100% match scores for each scholarship
⚔️ Deadline War Room: Military-style dashboard with color-coded urgency levels (Critical/Warning/Safe) and live countdown timers
🔍 Smart Search & Filters: Search through 180+ scholarships worth $2.5M+ with advanced filtering
💾 Pipeline Tracking: Bookmark opportunities and track your application progress
🤖 Automated Updates: GitHub Actions runs web scraper every 6 hours to keep data fresh

How I built it

Frontend:

Next.js 14 with TypeScript
Tailwind CSS for styling
Framer Motion for animations
React hooks for state management

Backend:

Next.js API Routes (Node.js)
Python web scraping engine (BeautifulSoup4)
Google Gemini Pro API for AI matching
GitHub Actions for automation pipeline

Deployment:

Vercel for hosting
JSON-based data storage
Real-time AI processing

Challenges I ran into

Rate Limits: Gemini API has rate limits, so I implemented smart caching - first 50 scholarships get real AI scores, remaining use intelligent estimation based on category matching
TypeScript Type Safety: Ensuring type safety across API routes and components while maintaining fast development speed
Mobile Responsiveness: Making the navigation and War Room interface work perfectly on all screen sizes
Data Freshness: Building an automated scraping pipeline that updates data without manual intervention

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

✅ Built a fully functional AI-powered platform in 24 hours
✅ Real Gemini AI integration (not fake or hardcoded)
✅ 180 scholarships aggregated from 5+ sources worth $2.5M+
✅ Deadline War Room - The most visually impressive feature with military-grade UI
✅ Production-ready deployment on Vercel with automated data pipeline
✅ Professional UX that looks like a $10K product