HackNexus

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Inspiration

Hackathons are fast-paced and intense, requiring developers to quickly understand sponsor technologies, troubleshoot issues, and submit projects within tight deadlines. Judges often struggle with manual project evaluation, and sponsors lack visibility into how their tools are used. HackNexus was built to streamline the hackathon experience for developers, judges, and sponsors by leveraging AI-driven assistance, automated evaluation, and insightful analytics.

What It Does

HackNexus is a multimodal, AI-powered platform designed to enhance hackathons by providing:

1. AI-Powered Developer Support

• AI Chatbot: Ingests sponsor documentation, sample apps, and videos to provide real-time technical assistance.
• Expert Connection: Facilitates communication tech support provided by sponsors.
• Seamless Code & Video Submission: Integrated with GitHub and Devpost to support project uploads.

2. Automated Project Evaluation for Judges

• Code Analysis: Automates due diligence by analyzing project submissions, identifying sponsor tool adoption, and generating structured grading reports.
• Judges Dashboard: Provides an interactive UI for streamlined review and scoring.

3. Actionable Insights for Sponsors

• Tool Adoption Analytics: Tracks how many teams used specific sponsor tools, with project-level insights.
• Feedback Aggregation: Extracts developer sentiments, common pain points, and improvement suggestions.
• Comprehensive Reporting: Generates detailed sponsor reports summarizing usage trends, performance issues, and recommended enhancements.

How We Built It

• AI & NLP: Gemini, Meta Llama 3.3 70B, Deepseek R1, LlamaIndex
• Backend: Python, FastAPI
• Frontend: React, Next.js
• Database: ApertureDB
• Report Generation: FPDF for structured PDF reports

Challenges We Ran Into

• Ensuring the chatbot accurately understands diverse technical queries.
• Automating due diligence while maintaining fairness and objectivity.
• Aggregating meaningful insights from chat logs and project submissions while maintaining privacy.
• Creating structured yet adaptable AI-generated reports for sponsors.

Accomplishments That We’re Proud Of

• Successfully built an AI chatbot that provides real-time developer support using multimodal resources.
• Developed an AI-powered due diligence system for judges, streamlining the evaluation process.
• Created comprehensive analytics dashboards for sponsors, providing unprecedented insights into tool adoption.
• Implemented an advanced report generation system that compiles key hackathon insights into well-structured documents.

What’s Next for HackNexus

• Improve chatbot accuracy and expand support for more programming languages.
• Enhance the judges' dashboard with deeper AI-powered evaluation metrics.
• Implement real-time leaderboards and mentor matching for hackathon participants.
• Provide sponsors with live insights on developer engagement and tool usage.
• Expand HackNexus beyond hackathons to developer conferences, coding competitions, and corporate innovation challenges.

Why HackNexus Matters

HackNexus transforms hackathons into efficient, data-driven, and impactful experiences by bridging the gap between developers, judges, and sponsors. With AI-driven automation, real-time assistance, and actionable insights, HackNexus ensures that every hackathon runs smoothly while maximizing innovation and learning opportunities.

Built With

• agno
• llamaindex
• togetherai