SEPTA Guardian

Inspiration

• Two of us use SEPTA to commute to Temple
• Routes from the app can sometimes be unreliable

What it does

• Uses AI and data from SEPTA to generate a route
• Also has accessibility features

How we built it

• Vibecoding

Challenges we ran into

• Trying to use the Gemini API for our project but it kept hallucinating data so we switched to OpenAI API

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Getting something up in only a day since this is everyone's first time doing a hackathon.

What we learned

• Even though we AI-generated a lot of the code, debugging the code takes so much more time
• Try to make the most of your time and divide the work properly
• Make sure the Github repository is well managed so it doesn't have to be untangled down the line

What's next for SEPTA Guardian

• We're going to add more features such as taking specific addresses instead of stations and a map visual
• Add chatbot features
• And also plan on making the app fully functional

Built With

• github
• openai
• python
• septa