Juniors and seniors connect to ask, share and exchange.
Built for SYRUS 7.0 Hackathon · CodeCell++, CMPN, VESIT Domain: Sustainability (PS-4) · Team: ByteForce
🚧 Project status: Campusly is currently a working prototype. Features marked ✅ are built; everything marked 🗓️ is planned. See Project Status for the full breakdown.
- Problem Statement
- Our Solution
- Modules
- Profiles & Brownie Points
- Moderation & Safety
- AI-Assisted Features
- Showstopper: Snap a Photo, Listing Done
- Architecture & Tech Stack
- Implementation Plan
- Project Status
- Business Plan
- Sustainability Impact
- Team
CampusConnect: Peer-to-Peer Engineering Learning & Resource Sharing Platform (working title: Campusly)
First-year engineering students feel overwhelmed by academics, tech domains and costly study materials, while seniors' tips and leftover resources sit unused or get lost in WhatsApp groups.
| Problem | What's happening | |
|---|---|---|
| ❓ | No Safe Space to Ask | Juniors lack a student-run space to ask doubts and get guidance without hesitation. |
| 💬 | Fragmented Knowledge | Roadmaps, exam strategies and experiences stay scattered across WhatsApp groups. |
| 📦 | Idle Resources | Textbooks and calculators go unused with seniors while juniors buy costly new material. |
The missing link: a proper student-run platform where juniors can get guidance, ask openly or anonymously, and easily borrow, buy or exchange study materials.
Campusly is a student-run web platform for engineering students: Reddit-style, but built for campus life. Juniors and seniors connect to ask, share and exchange.
| Module | Name | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| A | 👥 Technical Communities | Hubs for Web3, AI/ML, Cloud and DSA to share roadmaps, project ideas and prep guides. |
| B | 💬 Q&A and Mentorship | Ask openly or anonymously, get threaded senior advice, and upvote the best answers. |
| C | 📣 Opportunity Hub | Curated board of hackathons, coding contests and internships with deadlines and tips. |
| D | 🔁 Academic Resource Exchange | Buy, sell, donate or borrow calculators, textbooks, lab kits and notes. |
Every user has a profile with their study year, tech stack and Brownie (karma) points, plus bookmarks for useful posts. Users also pick a Bitmoji avatar for their campus profile and comments.
| Action | Brownies |
|---|---|
| Create a post | +15 |
| Your post gets an upvote | +10 |
| Write a comment | +5 |
| Your comment gets an upvote | +5 |
- Flag toxic content, scam listings and identity leaks.
- Anonymous authors stay protected: real IDs are masked at the auth layer.
- Scam or dead links are caught and hidden until a senior approves.
- Past a report threshold, Supabase Realtime pulls the post and alerts moderators.
- Moderators review flagged content from a dedicated view.
Powered by the free Google Gemini API:
| Feature | Powered by | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 🔍 Answers Before You Ask | Gemini Embeddings + Atlas Vector Search | Semantic search that surfaces matching past threads as you type. |
| 📝 Threads to Checklists | Gemini Flash | One click turns a long thread into an actionable checklist or summary. |
| 🚨 Scam & Toxicity Scans | Gemini (NLP) | Auto-moderation for scam listings, dead links and toxic content. |
| 📸 Photo to Listing | Gemini Vision | Auto-detects title, category and condition from an item photo. |
📷 Upload a photo → Item photo goes to free cloud storage (Supabase Storage)
🧠 Gemini Vision reads → Auto-detects title, category and condition
🗄️ Listing is created → Saved as a MongoDB document, zero manual typing
- 🕵️ Anonymous, yet protected: real IDs are masked at the auth layer.
- 🔍 Answers before you ask: vector search surfaces past threads as you type.
- ✅ Threads to checklists: long threads become actionable checklists.
- 🧹 Self-cleaning feed: scam or dead links are hidden until a senior approves.
- 🍫 Brownie rewards: points for posts, upvotes and helpful comments.
- ⚡ Live real-time chats: learn from seniors through live chats, not just threads.
- 💸 Built to stay free: free Gemini API and cloud storage keep AI running without extra infrastructure cost.
flowchart LR
subgraph P[Presentation]
A["React.js Frontend<br/>Home feed & communities<br/>Q&A threads and listings<br/>Profiles, upvotes, bookmarks"]
end
subgraph B[Application]
N["Node.js Backend<br/>Posts, listings, search<br/>Reports & moderation checks<br/>Calls Gemini and MongoDB Atlas"]
end
subgraph D[Data & Services]
M[("MongoDB Atlas<br/>Posts, listings, profiles<br/>Vector Search, moderation flags")]
S[("Supabase<br/>Auth - masked IDs<br/>Storage - item photos<br/>Realtime / WebSockets")]
end
G{{"Google Gemini API<br/>Embeddings · Flash · NLP · Vision"}}
A --> N
N --> M
N --> S
N --> G
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Frontend | HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React.js |
| UI Styling | Tailwind CSS |
| Backend & DB | Node.js, Supabase, MongoDB (Atlas) |
| AI | Google Gemini API (Embeddings, Flash, NLP, Vision) |
| Dev Tools | Figma, VS Code, AI coding tools (Claude, Codex, Grok, Gemini) |
Platform flow: Sign-up & Profile → Home Feed → Modules A to D → Engagement → Moderation Review → Outcome (SDG 4 & 12)
| # | Phase | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Foundation & Auth | Supabase Auth with masked identities, profile setup, React + Tailwind shell, Node.js API and MongoDB Atlas data model. |
| 2 | Knowledge Modules (A & B) | Technical Communities and Q&A & Mentorship: threaded answers, upvotes, Brownie points and bookmarks. |
| 3 | Opportunities & Exchange (C & D) | Opportunity Hub board and Resource Exchange with Supabase Storage uploads and Gemini Vision auto-listing. |
| 4 | AI Intelligence Layer | Embeddings with Atlas Vector Search, Flash thread summaries, and NLP scans for scams, dead links and toxicity. |
| 5 | Safety & Launch | Report thresholds, Supabase Realtime takedowns and moderator view; then pilot with first-year students. |
- College-email sign-in, protected by Supabase Authentication
- Profile page with Brownie score
- Bitmoji avatar picker
- Home feed
- Module A: Technical Communities
- Module B: Q&A and Mentorship (threads, upvotes, bookmarks)
- Module C: Opportunity Hub
- Module D: Academic Resource Exchange
- Gemini Vision photo-to-listing
- Semantic search with Atlas Vector Search
- Thread summaries / checklists with Gemini Flash
- Scam, dead-link and toxicity scans
- Report thresholds, Realtime takedowns and moderator view
- Live real-time chats
- Pilot with first-year engineering students
| 👥 Who we serve | First-year engineering students: guidance, answers and affordable materials. Seniors: share roadmaps, exam strategies and leftover resources. Moderators: review flagged content from a dedicated view. |
| 🎯 Value proposition | One student-run hub instead of scattered WhatsApp groups. Anonymous or open posting lowers the barrier to ask. Buy, sell, lend or donate materials, with opportunities in one place. |
| ⚡ Lean cost model | Free Google Gemini API for text, vision and embeddings. Supabase for auth and storage; MongoDB Atlas for data. AI features run without extra infrastructure costs. |
Growth path (proposed): Pilot with first-year engineering students on one campus, refine from feedback, then extend to more campuses.
- SDG 4: Quality Education: peer mentoring and shared roadmaps.
- SDG 12: Responsible Consumption & Production: reuse of books, calculators and lab kits over repurchase.
- Brownie points reward helpful contributors.
Team ByteForce
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Ayush Singh | (add role) |
| (add teammate) | (add role) |
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