StudyOSS

Inspiration As a computer engineering student, I was inspired to solve a personal pain point: the tedious process of summarizing dense notes and creating practice questions. I built StudyOSS to be an open-source AI study assistant, using gpt-oss to make learning more efficient and accessible for everyone.

How I Built It This project was my first full-stack application, built in just one week.

Frontend: A responsive React app using Chakra UI. Backend: A Python Flask API that handles user data and communicates with the AI. Database: PostgreSQL managed with SQLAlchemy. AI: The core summary and quiz features are powered by gpt-oss-20b. Deployment: The frontend is live on Vercel and the backend on Render.

Challenges I Faced Deploying a full-stack application for the first time was a huge challenge. I overcame production database issues, including driver incompatibilities. I also improved the user experience by adding a status indicator to handle the server's "cold starts" on the free hosting plan.

Built With

• chakra-ui
• chakraui
• flask
• gpt-oss-20b
• postgresql
• python
• react
• render
• vercel