To-Do Coin

Inspiration

This project is ultimately a response to our team’s love of procrastinating. Struggling to focus on a specific task and a lack of motivation are among the most common problems for college students. Therefore, we’ve decided that it would be more effective to combine time management and a reward system.

What it does

To-Do Coin is a smart study app that helps students manage their workload while earning some extra cash. The student may log the task list and study session they want to sit through. Then the AI breaks down tasks into bite-sized ones, which prevents overthinking and supports mental health. After the end of the study session, the user gets a token from the Solana blockchain. The amount gained depends on the period of the study session and the number of tasks completed.

How we built it

We handle all user related data, namely, info, tasks, wallet address, and more, are handled through MongoDB. Gemini API handles task evaluation: it decides into which subtasks the big one is going to be broke down and how much time a user needs for completion of the assignment. Solana blockchain (though solders library) gives out a reward for a good study session.

Challenges we ran into

This project was quite challenging for us overall, given that we are complete beginners. The biggest obstacle was, of course, dealing with the database because of the enormous variety of functionality it provides.

Accomplishments that we’re proud of

We are proud that we survived this night, learned something new, and built a project that helps others.

What we learned

We’ve learned the basics of Google AI Studio, Solana blockchain, database interactions, and deployment. We’ve also managed to get a good grasp on GitHub as a tool for collaborative work, as well as some AI agents for Vibe coding.