StudyShare

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AI Note Recommendations Page
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Sample User Notes Page
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Inspiration

Every student has faced the night-before-test panic, staring at incomplete notes and wishing for access to organized explanations. We realized that schools have vast academic knowledge but no central, safe place to share notes, summaries, and study guides. Our idea stemmed from one question: What if technology and AI could create a collaborative studying community?

What it does

StudyShare is a secure note-sharing platform helping students learn smarter and support each other. Key features include:

Note uploads with filters for subject, visibility, and brief descriptions, helping students find exactly what they need.
Private and public chats to communicate one-on-one or join broader school communities.
Detailed user profiles showcasing bios and note contributions.
AI-powered recommendations that analyze content and ratings to suggest the top 3 most relevant notes for a lesson.
School affiliation for prioritizing notes and enabling connections within the same school.
Other features:
- dark/light mode
- profile editing
- search filters
- multiple note types (lecture, lab, etc.).

How we built it

We iterated on several design ideas before building the platform using the AI-powered Lovable development platform and integrating the Gemini 2.5 API into our database. These tools allowed us to create a scalable, dynamic product that would have been difficult with traditional development alone.

Challenges we ran into

One problem we ran into was allowing people on our website to contact and message each other. We solved this by changing the way users and messages were stored. We also had a problem with allowing all students on the website to access someone’s file uploads into the website. We fixed this by creating a ‘private’ and ‘public’ setting for each file with only public files being accessible to other users.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of our prompt engineering with Lovable, allowing us to incorporate multiple features into a usable platform. Reusing the browse section and adding an AI notes recommender solved major storage and accessibility issues, a breakthrough for our workflow.

What we learned

This hackathon taught us the value of generating detailed ideas and collaborating as a team. Clear planning allowed us to create high-quality prompts for Lovable, maximizing the effectiveness of AI tools in development.

What's next for StudyShare

We envision StudyShare as an open-source notes platform like GitHub or NextDoor where all students can contribute to each other’s academic success and contact each other for resources and help. Future plans include a used textbook exchange, so peers can donate or sell books at a discounted price. Finally, we want to integrate tutoring and academic services, making our platform the central hub for student learning and connection.

Coming soon (Bonus)

We want to add the following features in the future:

An about us page explaining what our website is used for
Contact us/help section for users having trouble navigating our website
Send feedback at the bottom on what features/improvements we could make
A tooltip for when a user hovers over a section to provide basic details about it