SkillSync

🚀 Project Title: SkillSync – AI-Powered Student Collaboration Platform

💡 Problem

Students often struggle to find the right teammates for hackathons, projects, or study groups. Most platforms (like WhatsApp/Discord) are chaotic and don’t match people based on skills or goals.

🧠 Solution

SkillSync uses AI to match students with ideal teammates based on:

• Skills (e.g., Python, UI/UX, ML)
• Project interests (e.g., fintech, healthtech)
• Experience level
• Availability

It creates balanced, high-performing teams automatically.

🔥 Key Features

• 🤖 AI Team Matcher

  • Uses embeddings or similarity scoring to match users

• 🧑‍💻 Smart Profiles

  • Skills, past projects, GitHub, resume upload

• 🧩 Team Suggestions

  • “You + 3 others = perfect team”

• 💬 Built-in Chat

  • Team communication inside the app

• 📊 Skill Gap Analyzer

  • Suggests what skills your team is missing

• 🏆 Hackathon Mode

  • Auto-create teams for a specific hackathon

🛠️ Tech Stack (great for Devpost “Built With”)

• Frontend: React / Next.js
• Backend: Node.js / Express
• Database: MongoDB / Firebase
• AI: OpenAI API or embeddings + cosine similarity
• Auth: Firebase Auth / OAuth
• Optional: GitHub API integration

Built With

• express.js
• firebase-auth
• github-api
• mongodb
• next.js
• node.js
• openai-api
• react
• socket.io
• tailwind-css