🧠 StudyGenie: Your Ultimate Study Assistant

Inspiration

Studying can be stressful and time-consuming. We built StudyGenie to help students learn smarter with an AI-powered assistant that simplifies revision, boosts retention, and enhances productivity.

What it does

StudyGenie offers a suite of AI tools for students:

• 📄 Summarize PDFs
  
• 🔍 Explain complex topics
  
• ❓ Generate MCQs, statement-based, and assertion-reasoning questions
  
• 🎴 Create flashcards
  
• 📅 Build personalized study plans
  
• 🎥 Generate notes from YouTube videos
  
• ✍️ Write structured essays
  

How I built it

• Streamlit for the frontend UI
  
• LangChain for prompt workflows
  
• Groq API (Gemma-2-9b-it) for fast, high-quality AI responses
  
• PyPDFLoader for PDF text extraction
  
• YouTube Transcript Parser for video note generation
  
• Validators for input validation
  
• Dotenv for secure API key management
  

Challenges

• Handling large PDF files efficiently
  
• Ensuring high-quality, relevant AI outputs
  
• Designing a clean and intuitive UI within Streamlit’s limitations
  

Accomplishments

• Integrated multiple study tools in one app
  
• Enabled fast AI responses using Groq
  
• Delivered accurate summaries, notes, and questions with minimal input
  

What I learned

• Modular prompt engineering with LangChain
  
• Efficient LLM integration via Groq
  
• The importance of simplicity in UX for educational tools
  

What's next

• 📊 Analytics dashboard
  
• 🌐 Multilingual support
  
• 🧑‍🏫 AI tutor mode
  
• 🤝 Study group collaboration
  
• 📲 Mobile app version
  

Built With

• dotenv
• gemma-2-9b-it
• groq
• json
• langchain
• llm
• openai-(for-fallback-testing)
• prompt-engineering
• pypdfloader
• python
• requests
• streamlit
• validators
• youtube-transcript-parser