anchor
stringlengths
1
23.8k
positive
stringlengths
1
23.8k
negative
stringlengths
1
31k
anchor_status
stringclasses
3 values
# Liber Populus ## Vote like your life depends on it. By many accounts, this upcoming 2020 election will be one of the most contentious to date. With a global pandemic, economic crisis, racial unrest, two starkly different candidates, and a polarized nation, it is important that everyone who is able to partakes in th...
## Inspiration We were inspired to create this site to raise the importance of being a global citizen in our modern world. Our biggest goal was to create a site that would achieve just that. ## What it does Our site serves as a beacon of knowledge for those looking for an educational tool or more importantly, those ...
Our full case study, including our user research and ideation process can be read here: <https://medium.com/@annakambhampaty/pocket-democracy-empowering-voters-using-the-google-cloud-vision-api-ibm-watson-and-revspeech-61268791fcd3> ## Inspiration "If I don't know either candidate in the race, I'd go by picking the D...
partial
## Inspiration There were two primary sources of inspiration. The first one was a paper published by University of Oxford researchers, who proposed a state of the art deep learning pipeline to extract spoken language from video. The paper can be found [here](http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/%7Evgg/publications/2018/Afouras1...
## Inspiration Determined to create a project that was able to make impactful change, we sat and discussed together as a group our own lived experiences, thoughts, and opinions. We quickly realized the way that the lack of thorough sexual education in our adolescence greatly impacted each of us as we made the transiti...
## Inspiration Currently, it is difficult for people coming from different language backgrounds to share pictures and describe them to each other. For example, if someone wanted to generate a way of describing what is happening in the picture to someone who speaks a different language than themselves, it would be near...
winning
## Inspiration We were inspired by our own experiences and by those of our classmates. Despite having started our degree in-person, before the pandemic, most of our time in college has been spent online. We know people who started post-secondary studies during the pandemic and some of them have never even been to camp...
## Inspiration As our world becomes more digitalized and interactions become a more permanent, our team noticed a rise in online anxiety stemming from an innate fear of being judged or making a mistake. In Elizabeth Armstrong's book *Paying for the Party* , Armstrong mentions the negative impacts of being unique at a ...
## Inspiration Covid-19 has turned every aspect of the world upside down. Unwanted things happen, situation been changed. Lack of communication and economic crisis cannot be prevented. Thus, we develop an application that can help people to survive during this pandemic situation by providing them **a shift-taker job p...
losing
## Inspiration In an increasingly polarized America, it is often too easy to live inside an echo chamber of political thought. This is especially true in colleges across America, where once-civil discussion of political issues can often devolves into shouting matches or violence. We wanted to create a tool to make it ...
## Our Project - CounterPoint **What**: To hack for a social good, we created a website that uses GoogleCloud's AI services to bridge the divide, whether the debate is political or scientific! **How**: You give our site a link to an article that you agree with(ex. a FoxNews Anti climate-change article) and we use nat...
# NewsBlind ## Summary Machine-learning powered fake news detector with a user-oriented web interface that includes both a concrete judgment on the article, detailed and rigorous summary, and a crowdsourced poll for users to vote on whether or not they agree on the application's judgment. ## Our Hack We created a m...
partial
## Inspiration In the future we would be driving electric cars. They would have different automatic features, including electronic locks. This system may be vulnerable to the hackers, who would want to unlock the car in public parking lots. So we would like to present **CARSNIC**, a solution to this problem. ## What ...
## Inspiration We found that the current price of smart doors on the market is incredibly expensive. We wanted to improve the current technology of smart doors at a fraction of the price. In addition, smart locks are not usually hands free, either requiring the press of a button or going on the User's phone. We wanted...
## Inspiration The failure of a certain project using Leap Motion API motivated us to learn it and use it successfully this time. ## What it does Our hack records a motion password desired by the user. Then, when the user wishes to open the safe, they repeat the hand motion that is then analyzed and compared to the ...
partial
# PixelShare: An Online Pixelated Canvas Online pixel canvas where users can collaborate with each other and contribute to the canvas. Check it out and contribute [here](http://104.197.33.114:8000/)!
## Inspiration MillionPixelHomepage and how people actually bought all the pixels. ## What it does It lets people to spend their excess money to draw on a public canvas. ## How I built it We used \_ HTML/JS/PHP \_ and \_ Bootstrap \_ to build the website. We also used the \_ BrainTree API \_ to handle the payment ...
## About the Project ### TLDR: Caught a fish? Take a snap. Our AI-powered app identifies the catch, keeps track of stats, and puts that fish in your 3d, virtual, interactive aquarium! Simply click on any fish in your aquarium, and all its details — its rarity, location, and more — appear, bringing your fishing memori...
losing
## Inspiration The members are part of a working/studying community that tends to rely on caffeine to improve their performance and focus. Over the years, this community has been expanding, as the idea of drinking a coffee or energetic drink becomes a trending activity, fostering new types of beverages in the market a...
## Inspiration: The inspiration for this project was finding a way to incentivize healthy activity. While the watch shows people data like steps taken and calories burned, that alone doesn't encourage many people to exercise. By making the app, we hope to make exercise into a game that people look forward to doing rat...
## Inspiration Our team wanted improve the daily lives of our society and third world countries. We realized that a lot of fatigue is caused by dehydration, and that it is easily improved by drinking more water. However, we often forget as our lives get very busy, but what we don't forget to do is to check our phones ...
partial
## Inspiration Humans left behind nearly $1,000,000 in change at airports worldwide in 2018. Imagine what that number is outside of airports. Now, imagine the impact we could make if that leftover money went toward charities that make the world a better place. This is why we should SpareChange - bringing change, with ...
## Github Repository <https://github.com/deltahacksiii/deltahacksiii> ## Inspiration Loaning money can be difficult, especially when interests rates are so high, and many loan sharks seem to have alterior motives when you can't find other means. Some groups have an increased difficulty due to their situation; they m...
## Our Inspiration, what it does, and how we built it We wanted to work on something that challenged the engineering of today’s consumer economy. As college students across different campuses we noticed the common trend of waste, hoarding, and overspending among students. At the core of this issue is a first-instinct ...
partial
## Inspiration In the maze of social interactions, we've all encountered the awkward moment of not remembering the name of someone we've previously met. Face-Book is our solution to the universal social dilemma of social forgetfulness. ## What it does Face-Book is an iPhone app that--discreetly--records and analyzes...
## Inspiration In our current day to day life, social media has taken priority in a majority of our attention spans. We recognize an addiction that exists within society and how it limits users to their phones instead of engaging with their surroundings. We were inspired to create an environment in which allowed users...
## Inspiration Security and facial recognition was our main interest when planning our project for this Makeathon. We were inspired by a documentary in which a male was convicted of murder by the police deparment in Los Angeles. The man was imprisoned for six months away from his daughter and wife. He was wrongfully c...
losing
## Inspiration As a team, we've all witnessed the devastation of muscular-degenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's, on the family members of the afflicted. Because we didn't have enough money or resources or time to research and develop a new drug or other treatment for the disease, we wanted to make the medicine al...
## Inspiration Currently the insurance claims process is quite labour intensive. A person has to investigate the car to approve or deny a claim, and so we aim to make the alleviate this cumbersome process smooth and easy for the policy holders. ## What it does Quick Quote is a proof-of-concept tool for visually eval...
## Inspiration In third-world countries and in remote areas, there are few doctors available to diagnose disease. Among these diseases are strokes, which require immediate medical attention to avoid serious injury. Unfortunately, many do not receive treatment in time, simply because they cannot identify whether they a...
winning
# Travel Itinerary Generator ## Inspiration Traveling is an experience that many cherish, but planning for it can often be overwhelming. With countless events, places to visit, and activities, it's easy to miss out on experiences that could have made the trip even more memorable. This realization inspired us to creat...
## Inspiration We were sitting together as a team after dinner when our team member pulled out her phone and mentioned she needed to log her food – mentioning how she found the app she used (MyFitnessPal) to be quite tedious. This was a sentiment shared by many users we've encountered and we decided there must be a wa...
## Inspiration There are many occasions where we see a place in a magazine, or just any image source online and we don't know where the place is. There is no description anywhere, and a possible vacation destination may very possibly just disappear into thin air. We certainly did not want to miss out. ## What it does...
partial
## Inspiration As programmers, we collectively realized how much we disliked the process of creating a pitch site/landing page to explain our project - it took away precious time from working on the actual product! We recognized our shared need for a quick landing page solution, which would sum up the basics of our pr...
## Why Soundscape Hacking for the hack of it. It is a great mantra, and one that we often take to heart. While there is significant value in hackathon projects that offer aid in difficult and demanding tasks, sometimes the most interesting hacks are those that exist for their own sake. Soundscape takes a novel approac...
## Inspiration Imagine you're sitting in your favorite coffee shop and a unicorn startup idea pops into your head. You open your laptop and choose from a myriad selection of productivity tools to jot your idea down. It’s so fresh in your brain, you don’t want to waste any time so, fervently you type, thinking of your ...
partial
## Inspiration Nearly 800,000 people in the US experience strokes, killing over 140,000 die every year. Majority of strokes block blood entry to the brain, resulting in serious paralysis and difficulty with motor control. Despite the growing number of people suffering from strokes every year, there are very few therap...
## Inspiration * Whenever I have a pain in the chest, leg or arm, I never know what to think or what to look up. It would be quite unnecessary to look up leg pain, that is so vague. And I am not able to name each part of my leg. There had to be a better way to asses that. After all, there are only 2 in 3,000 people th...
## Inspiration Millions of people around the world are either blind, or partially sighted. For those who's vision is impaired, but not lost, there are tools that can help them see better. By increasing contrast and detecting lines in an image, some people might be able to see clearer. ## What it does We developed an...
losing
## Inspiration Noise sensitivity is common in autism, but it can also affect individuals without autism. Research shows that 50 to 70 percent of people with autism experience hypersensitivity to everyday sounds. This inspired us to create a wearable device to help individuals with heightened sensory sensitivities mana...
Bet for Bit is a premium, high-security Bitcoin betting service for dedicated sports fans. It is built with Python, Django, and the CoinBase api. Our platform scrapes live sports stats, and allows users to place bitcoin bets on their sports teams.
## Inspiration All of us have friends or know of someone who has ADHD. ADHD is characterized by being easily distracted, especially by sounds in our everyday life such as a cough or car honk. From this idea of noise distractions, we decided to try creating noise-cancelling headphones for anyone just wanting to focus (...
winning
## Inspiration When thinking about how we could make a difference within local communities impacted by Covid-19, what came to mind are our frontline workers. Our doctors, nurses, grocery store workers, and Covid-19 testing volunteers, who have tirelessly been putting themselves and their families on the line. They are...
## Inspiration As students, we have found that there are very few high-quality resources on investing for those who are interested but don't have enough resources. Furthermore, we have found that investing and saving money can be a stressful experience. We hope to change this for those who want to save better with the...
Hello and thank you for judging my project. I am listing below two different links and an explanation of what the two different videos are. Due to the time constraints of some hackathons, I have a shorter video for those who require a lower time. As default I will be placing the lower time video up above, but if you ha...
partial
## Inspiration We created Stage Hand with the hopes of equipping people with the necessary skills to become poised and confident speakers. Upon realizing how big of a fear public speaking is for most people, we wanted to help people cope with that fear while gaining the skillsets necessary to become better presenters....
## Inspiration Almost all undergraduate students, especially at large universities like the University of California Berkeley, will take a class that has a huge lecture format, with several hundred students listening to a single professor speak. At Berkeley, students (including three of us) took CS61A, the introductor...
## Inspiration One of our team members underwent speech therapy as a child, and the therapy helped him gain a sense of independence and self-esteem. In fact, over 7 million Americans, ranging from children with gene-related diseases to adults who suffer from stroke, go through some sort of speech impairment. We wanted...
partial
## Inspiration Pranit and Sashank are a part of Boy Scouts, and we both spend a lot of time helping our community and giving back. We have had personal accounts with the organizations we aim to help. Krish is also a local advocate for sustainability, he regularly looks for opportunities to help. We saw a need and we ...
## Inspiration Save the World is a mobile app meant to promote sustainable practices, one task at a time. ## What it does Users begin with a colorless Earth prominently displayed on their screens, along with a list of possible tasks. After completing a sustainable task, such as saying no to a straw at a restaurant, ...
## Inspiration The modern world faces a materials and resource crisis. As per The Guardian, about one pound of food is wasted per person. Our global gas supply steadily continues shrinking as more carbon emissions are send into our atmosphere. There are countless clothes that people store in their closets that they ca...
partial
## Inspiration Students are often put into a position where they do not have the time nor experience to effectively budget their finances. This unfortunately leads to many students falling into debt, and having a difficult time keeping up with their finances. That's where wiSpend comes to the rescue! Our objective is ...
## Inspiration So, like every Hackathon we’ve done in the past, we wanted to build a solution based on the pain points of actual, everyday people. So when we decided to pursue the Healthtech track, we called the nurses and healthcare professionals in our lives. To our surprise, they all seemed to have the same gripe –...
## Our Inspiration, what it does, and how we built it We wanted to work on something that challenged the engineering of today’s consumer economy. As college students across different campuses we noticed the common trend of waste, hoarding, and overspending among students. At the core of this issue is a first-instinct ...
partial
## Inspiration After surfing online, we found some cool videos of 3d tracking with an eye. We thought taking those concepts and bringing it to a mobile game would be a wonderful combination of the two, and bring more physical activity in a game. ## What it does This game provides a source of endless activity and enc...
## TRY IT ON YOUR OWN DEVICE! <https://ecoalchemy.vercel.app/> ## Inspiration 🌍 We built EcoAlchemy to be the ultimate educational game on ecology and sustainability that is friendly to all age groups. EcoAlchemy is inspired by the urgent need for environmental awareness 🌱 and the captivating power of gaming 🎮. I...
## Inspiration We were inspired by the genetic-algorithm-based Super Mario AI known as MarI/O made by SethBling. MarI/O uses genetic algorithms to teach a neural net to beat levels of Super Mario by maximizing an objective function. Inspired by this, we wanted to create a game that maximizes an objective function usin...
losing
## Inspiration In the exciting world of hackathons, where innovation meets determination, **participants like ourselves often ask "Has my idea been done before?"** While originality is the cornerstone of innovation, there's a broader horizon to explore - the evolution of an existing concept. Through our AI-driven plat...
## Inspiration We saw that lots of people were looking for a team to work with for this hackathon, so we wanted to find a solution ## What it does I helps developers find projects to work, and helps project leaders find group members. By using the data from Github commits, it can determine what kind of projects a pe...
## Inspiration In our fast-paced, bustling world, cooking is nothing short of a tedious task. Most importantly, finding the motivation to cook a healthy, nutritious meal at home with McDonald's being around every corner has always been extremely difficult. That is, until now. Meet OnlyChefs. ## What it does OnlyChef...
winning
## Inspiration Neural Learning seminar. We wanted to try a project with some Artificial Intelligence ## What it does A unsolved Sudoku puzzle is provided in a text file, and the program solves the corresponding puzzle. ## How we built it Used an AC-3 constraint propagation algorithm to limit domains. Each grid on ...
## Inspiration We wanted to create a game that helped us further understanding some main methods of machine learning. ## What it does This game encompasses a machine learning model that learns how to play a simplified version of the popular game, Super Smash Bros. It uses a population of individuals with neural netw...
## Inspiration Noise sensitivity is common in autism, but it can also affect individuals without autism. Research shows that 50 to 70 percent of people with autism experience hypersensitivity to everyday sounds. This inspired us to create a wearable device to help individuals with heightened sensory sensitivities mana...
losing
## Inspiration Every few days, a new video of a belligerent customer refusing to wear a mask goes viral across the internet. On neighborhood platforms such as NextDoor and local Facebook groups, neighbors often recount their sightings of the mask-less minority. When visiting stores today, we must always remain vigilan...
## Inspiration 🍪 We’re fed up with our roommates stealing food from our designated kitchen cupboards. Few things are as soul-crushing as coming home after a long day and finding that someone has eaten the last Oreo cookie you had been saving. Suffice it to say, the university student population is in desperate need o...
## Inspiration The general challenge of UottaHack 4 was to create a hack surrounding COVID-19. We got inspired by a COVID-19 restriction in the province of Quebec which requires stores to limit the number of people allowed in the store at once (depending on the store floor size). This results in many stores having to ...
winning
## Inspiration We are reimagining what social interactions empowered by technology can be. Technology will continue to be a huge factor in everyone’s life, and it is about time it facilitates conversation, rather than acting as a barrier from real interactions. The first area we will tackle is forming the initial mea...
## Inspiration With the world in a technology age, it is easy to lose track of human emotions when developing applications to make the world a better place. Searching for restaurants using multiple filters and reading reviews is often times inefficient, leading the customer to give up searching and settle for somethin...
## See our live demo! **On Rinkeby testnet blockchain (recommended):** <https://rinkeby.kelas.dev> **On xDAI blockchain (Warning: uses real money):** <https://xdai.kelas.dev> ## Check out our narrative StoryMaps here! **Greenery in your Community:** <https://arcg.is/1vu448> **Culture & Diversity in choosing your H...
losing
# ConnectWith We want people to make the best use of their first degree connections on LinkedIn to achieve their goals in life. Often times, we have amazing ideas that go to waste because we weren't able to find enough people to help fulfill that idea and we don't know where to look. It is surprising how much you can ...
## Inspiration Imagine this: You’re overwhelmed, scrolling through countless LinkedIn profiles, trying to figure out which clubs or activities will help you land your dream job. It feels like searching for a needle in a haystack! Here’s where UJourney steps in: We simplify your career planning by providing personaliz...
# vly.ai: generating full-stack SaaS applications in just 1 click We generate full-stack web apps optimized for SaaS use cases (front end, back end, integrations such as stripe, email, texting, and more) completely using AI, without the need for any programming knowledge. ### going for: best use of AI Agents / AI pro...
losing
## What it does * Connects people in need of food with those that are able and willing to donate their surplus food supply. The App utilizes geolocation to determine realtime locations. ## Challenges I ran into * Implementing Firebase to allow client-server interaction ## What's next for Nourish * Implementing a f...
## Inspiration The first step of our development process was conducting user interviews with University students within our social circles. When asked of some recently developed pain points, 40% of respondents stated that grocery shopping has become increasingly stressful and difficult with the ongoing COVID-19 pandem...
## Inspiration After witnessing the abundance of food waste here in our community at Stanford, we became discouraged by the social attitudes pertaining to this issue. Members of our team come from backgrounds that place emphasis on mindfulness surrounding food consumption and security. We hope to provide a resource to...
winning
## Inspiration COVID-19 has made it difficult for low-income families and seniors to access food banks. In addition to long line-ups at existing food banks, individuals need to travel for longer periods of time due to transit delays. People need food but they also need to access it safely and in a way that upholds the...
## Inspiration The both of us study in NYC and take subways almost everyday, and we notice the rampant food insecurity and poverty in an urban area. In 2017 40 million people struggled with hunger (source Feeding America) yet food waste levels remain at an all time high (“50% of all produce in the United States is thr...
## Inspiration With evolutions in bipedal robotics, balance has become something that we take for granted. Yet despite the many steps taken forward in advancing technological walking, we've neglected to innovate and support our elderly populations with their mobility issues. The older we get, the more dangerous a fall...
losing
## Inspiration At reFresh, we are a group of students looking to revolutionize the way we cook and use our ingredients so they don't go to waste. Today, America faces a problem of food waste. Waste of food contributes to the acceleration of global warming as more produce is needed to maintain the same levels of demand...
## Inspiration Almost 2.2 million tonnes of edible food is discarded each year in Canada alone, resulting in over 17 billion dollars in waste. A significant portion of this is due to the simple fact that keeping track of expiry dates for the wide range of groceries we buy is, put simply, a huge task. While brainstormi...
# Inspiration As a new hire, you probably know the pain of trying to get familiar with company culture, or spending hours digging through large, complicated codebases, or having to dig through a library of technical messages just to understand coworkers. In the end a tremendous amount of essential, work related knowle...
partial
## What it does KokoRawr at its core is a Slack App that facilitates new types of interactions via chaotic cooperative gaming through text. Every user is placed on a team based on their Slack username and tries to increase their team's score by playing games such as Tic Tac Toe, Connect 4, Battleship, and Rock Paper S...
## Problem In these times of isolation, many of us developers are stuck inside which makes it hard for us to work with our fellow peers. We also miss the times when we could just sit with our friends and collaborate to learn new programming concepts. But finding the motivation to do the same alone can be difficult. #...
# PennApps18-Chrome-Messenger ## All instructions will go here A MQTT based Chat messenger for the Google Chrome Extension bar. It consist of two part: 1) Front-end Chrome Extension 2) Back-end MQTT+Nodejs+MySQL Front-end it offers the UX interface with register, login and chat features Back-end offers the backbone...
winning
## Inspiration The general challenge of UottaHack 4 was to create a hack surrounding COVID-19. We got inspired by a COVID-19 restriction in the province of Quebec which requires stores to limit the number of people allowed in the store at once (depending on the store floor size). This results in many stores having to ...
OUR VIDEO IS IN THE COMMENTS!! THANKS FOR UNDERSTANDING (WIFI ISSUES) ## Inspiration As a group of four students having completed 4 months of online school, going into our second internship and our first fully remote internship, we were all nervous about how our internships would transition to remote work. When remin...
## Inspiration We as a team shared the same interest in knowing more about Machine Learning and its applications. upon looking at the challenges available, we were immediately drawn to the innovation factory and their challenges, and thought of potential projects revolving around that category. We started brainstormin...
partial
## Inspiration We want to make healthcare more accessible through our skINsight app. ## What it does Identifies skin condition using picture of affected skin area. Chatbot to get help and information on treating the skin condition. ## How we built it App using react-native and node.js. Custom classifier model wi...
## Inspiration The inspiration for our application came from our own laziness and unwillingness to go to the doctors for anything. We wanted to create an application with machine learning and artificial intelligence models in order to improve the daily lives of the lazy. Our goal is to create an application to change ...
## Inspiration Due to the shortages of doctors and clinics in rural areas, early diagnosis of skin diseases that may seem harmless on the outside but can become life-threatening is a real problem. MediDerma uses Computer Vision to predict skin diseases and provide the underlying symptoms associated which are prominent...
partial
Introducing Melo-N – where your favorite tunes get a whole new vibe! Melo-N combines "melody" and "Novate" to bring you a fun way to switch up your music. Here's the deal: You pick a song and a genre, and we do the rest. We keep the lyrics and melody intact while changing up the music style. It's like listening to you...
## Inspiration We both love karaoke, but there are lots of obstacles: * going to a physical karaoke is expensive and inconvenient * youtube karaoke videos not always matches your vocal (key) range, and there is also no playback * existing karaoke apps have limited songs, not flexible based on your music taste ## Wha...
## Inspiration Have you ever wanted to listen to music based on how you’re feeling? Now, all you need to do is message MoodyBot a picture of yourself or text your mood, and you can listen to the Spotify playlist MoodyBot provides. Whether you’re feeling sad, happy, or frustrated, MoodyBot can help you find music that ...
winning
## Inspiration We spend a lot of our time sitting in front of the computer. The idea is to use the video feed from webcam to determine the emotional state of the user, analyze and provide a feedback accordingly in the form of music, pictures and videos. ## How I built it Using Microsoft Cognitive Services (Video + E...
## Inspiration After years of teaching methods remaining constant, technology has not yet infiltrated the classroom to its full potential. One day in class, it occurred to us that there must be a correlation between students behaviour in classrooms and their level of comprehension. ## What it does We leveraged Apple...
## Inspiration ✨ Seeing friends' lives being ruined through **unhealthy** attachment to video games. Struggling with regulating your emotions properly is one of the **biggest** negative effects of video games. ## What it does 🍎 YourHP is a webapp/discord bot designed to improve the mental health of gamers. By using...
partial
## Inspiration Treehacks's 'Most Impactful Hack' and theme of sustainability encouraged us to think about one of the **Sustainable Developmental Goals** that is **Zero Hunger** and work on solving the global issue. As it is not possible to eradicate completely so we analyzed to implement in our homes; the change begin...
## Inspiration \_ I was and am always curious about the trading market \_ . Both the **stock-exchange** and the **crypto-world** has been one of my friends for some time now. I started investing in these as soon as I turned 18. So, as a trainee myself, I wanted to create a platform where all can train themselves and h...
# Omakase *"I'll leave it up to you"* ## Inspiration On numerous occasions, we have each found ourselves staring blankly into the fridge with no idea of what to make. Given some combination of ingredients, what type of good food can I make, and how? ## What It Does We have built an app that recommends recipes base...
losing
## The Problem 🤔 In the midst of an ecological crisis, one of Canada's largest environmental problems is being caused by one of its smallest critters - the dreaded Mountain Pine Beetle. Between 1990 and 2012, the Beetle ate its way through approximately 723 million cubic metres (53%) of all the merchantable pine in B...
## Inspiration We saw that lots of people were looking for a team to work with for this hackathon, so we wanted to find a solution ## What it does I helps developers find projects to work, and helps project leaders find group members. By using the data from Github commits, it can determine what kind of projects a pe...
## 💡 Inspiration From farmers' protest around the world, subsidies to keep agriculture afloat, to the regular use of pesticides that kills organisms and pollutes the environment, the agriculture industry has an issue in optimizing resources. So, we want to make technology that would efficiently manage a farm through ...
winning
## Inspiration Jessica here - I came up with the idea for BusPal out of expectation that the skill has already existed. With my Amazon Echo Dot, I was already doing everything from checking the weather to turning off and on my lights with Amazon skills and routines. The fact that she could not check when my bus to sch...
## Inspiration We as a team shared the same interest in knowing more about Machine Learning and its applications. upon looking at the challenges available, we were immediately drawn to the innovation factory and their challenges, and thought of potential projects revolving around that category. We started brainstormin...
## Inspiration Have you ever missed your bus stop? Was it because you were sleeping, too busy socializing, or too focused on procrastinating? Whatever it was, we’ve all experienced that disappointment of getting off at the wrong bus stop because we were occupied with our own lives. We want to fix this problem for you ...
winning
## Inspiration We were inspired by a [recent article](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-man-heart-stops-toronto-airport-1.5430605) that we saw on the news, where there was a man who suffered a cardiac arrest while waiting for his plane. With the help of a bystander who was able to administer the AED and...
## Inspiration Imagine you broke your EpiPen but you need it immediately for an allergic reaction. Imagine being lost in the forest with cut wounds and bleeding from a fall but have no first aid kit. How will you take care of your health without nearby hospitals or pharmacies? Well good thing for you, we have **MediFl...
## Inspiration Guardian Angel was born from the need for reliable emergency assistance in an unpredictable world. Our experiences with the elderly, such as our grandparents, who may fall when we’re not around, and the challenges we may face in vulnerable situations motivated us to create a tool that automatically reac...
winning
## Inspiration Old school bosses don't want want to see you slacking off and always expect you to be all movie hacker in the terminal 24/7. As professional slackers, we also need our fair share of coffee and snacks. We initially wanted to create a terminal app to order Starbucks and deliver it to the E7 front desk. Th...
💭 **Inspiration**💭 We know what it's like to be indecisive about where to eat (trust us, we're both extremely indecisive), so we created a solution that'll solve just that! 🍴 **What it does** 🍴 For all the indecisive people, our program will randomly select a restaurant as well as recommend the highest rated res...
## Inspiration A couple of weeks ago, 3 of us met up at a new Italian restaurant and we started going over the menu. It became very clear to us that there were a lot of options, but also a lot of them didn't match our dietary requirements. And so, we though of Easy Eats, a solution that analyzes the menu for you, to s...
partial
## Inspiration In today's age, people have become more and more divisive on their opinions. We've found that discussion nowadays can just result in people shouting instead of trying to understand each other. ## What it does **Change my Mind** helps to alleviate this problem. Our app is designed to help you find peop...
## Inspiration We wanted to bring financial literacy into being a part of your everyday life while also bringing in futuristic applications such as augmented reality to really motivate people into learning about finance and business every day. We were looking at a fintech solution that didn't look towards enabling fin...
## Clique ### Inspiration + Description Our inspiration came from us really missing those real life encounters that we make with people on a daily basis. In college, we quite literally have the potential to meet someone new everyday: at the dining hall, the gym, discussion section, anywhere. However, with remote lear...
winning
## Inspiration We are tinkerers and builders who love getting our hands on new technologies. When we discovered that the Spot Robot Dog from Boston Dynamics was available to build our project upon, we devised different ideas about the real-world benefits of robot dogs. From a conversational companion to a navigational...
# 🚗 InsuclaimAI: Simplifying Insurance Claims 📝 ## 🌟 Inspiration 💡 After a frustrating experience with a minor fender-bender, I was faced with the overwhelming process of filing an insurance claim. Filling out endless forms, speaking to multiple customer service representatives, and waiting for assessments felt l...
## Inspiration We wanted to build something that would help those with limited mobility or eyesight. We wanted to make something that was as simple and intuitive as possible, while performing complex tasks. To this end, we designed a system to allow users to locate items around their home they might not normally be ab...
partial
## Inspiration Type 1 diabetes is a chronic disease that requires intensive management of blood glucose levels, resulting in countless interrupted meals, sleepless nights, and stress. Tools to automate insulin delivery have been slow to come to market, and are often inaccessible due to their higher costs; all current ...
## Inspiration We were originally inspired by the use of emojis to create mosaic art from photos. We thought it was interesting how emojis are often used in modern communication to replace words. We wanted to explore how emojis could be used to visualize the meanings of songs in a fun and interactive way. ## What it ...
(Local Program for data in + hardware firmware)<https://github.com/assasin2gamer/CalHacks> (Website with Reflex) <https://github.com/mishcoder/calhacks> (Intel integration) <https://github.com/AKUMAR0019/calhacks> ## Inspiration Our project draws inspiration from the challenge of classifying emotions, a complex task....
losing
## Inspiration We were interested in machine learning and data analytics and decided to pursue a real-world application that could prove to have practical use for society. Many themes of this project were inspired by hip-hop artist Cardi B. ## What it does Money Moves analyzes data about financial advisors and their...
## Inspiration The inspiration for *SurgeVue* came from the high risks associated with brain surgeries, where precision is critical and the margin for error is minimal. With a mortality rate that increases 15-fold for non-elective neurosurgeries, we were motivated to create a solution that leverages augmented reality ...
## Inspiration How does a first-time freshman hacker compete with teams possessing several or even dozens of hackathons under their belt? Our team's response is buzz-words, all of them. With a diverse team of majors ranging from Mechanical Engineering to International and Public Affairs, we each possessed distinct sk...
winning
## Inspiration Our team understands the importance of pursuing and—ultimately—living your passion. Spending time at the job you desire will eventually have it ‘work’ for you, as you are never wasting your energy, but rather, enjoying yourself. Hence, our slogan. That is exactly why we decided to create a website that ...
## Inspiration Looking around you in your day-to-day life you see so many people eating so much food. Trust me, this is going somewhere. All that stuff we put in our bodies, what is it? What are all those ingredients that seem more like chemicals that belong in nuclear missiles over your 3 year old cousins Coke? Answe...
## Inspiration As students, we have found that there are very few high-quality resources on investing for those who are interested but don't have enough resources. Furthermore, we have found that investing and saving money can be a stressful experience. We hope to change this for those who want to save better with the...
losing
## Inspiration Lack of quality education in third-world countries. ## What it does Connects the bright students to the best professors. ## How we built it React for front-end and python/flask for backend with the use of assemblyAI for transcribing the calls and WebRTC for communication. ## Challenges we ran into ...
## Inspiration As we all know the world has come to a halt in the last couple of years. Our motive behind this project was to help people come out of their shells and express themselves. Connecting various people around the world and making them feel that they are not the only ones fighting this battle was our main ob...
## 💫 Inspiration Inspired by our grandparents, who may not always be able to accomplish certain tasks, we wanted to create a platform that would allow them to find help locally . We also recognize that many younger members of the community might be more knowledgeable or capable of helping out. These younger members m...
losing
## Our Inspiration for Quadrant. Our group first discussed an alternative to headphones, as they can typically become cumbersome and annoying, however we realized that at the same time solving a comfort issue, we are also able to solve an accessibility issue for people that play video games, and that may have impaired...
Welcome to our project, RepMe! We are a team of four university students studying Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. We created RepCount as a solution for those looking to track their exercise progress and stay motivated. Our app allows users to easily input and record the number of reps f...
## What it does Think "virtual vision stick on steroids"! It is a wearable device that AUDIBLY provides visually impaired people with information on the objects in front of them as well as their proximity. ## How we built it We used computer vision from Python and OpenCV to recognize objects such as "chair" and "per...
losing
## Inspiration What if I want to take an audio tour of a national park or a University campus on my own time? What if I want to take an audio tour of a place that doesn't even offer audio tours? With Toor, we are able to harness people's passions for the places they love to serve the curiosity of our users. ## What ...
## Inspiration We were inspired by hard working teachers and students. Although everyone was working hard, there was still a disconnect with many students not being able to retain what they learned. So, we decided to create both a web application and a companion phone application to help target this problem. ## What ...
# Nexus, **Empowering Voices, Creating Connections**. ## Inspiration The inspiration for our project, Nexus, comes from our experience as individuals with unique interests and challenges. Often, it isn't easy to meet others with these interests or who can relate to our challenges through traditional social media plat...
partial
# Healthy.ly An android app that can show if a food is allergic to you just by clicking its picture. It can likewise demonstrate it's health benefits, ingredients, and recipes. ## Inspiration We are a group of students from India. The food provided here is completely new to us and we don't know the ingredients. One ...
## Inspiration We were inspired by issues we had ourselves with COVID-19 - we learned a ton about tech and coding and wanted to share our passion with others in software development, but hit a wall in finding others like ourselves. We were all too familiar with recruiting someone for a hackathon, only to have them gho...
# Healthy.ly An android app that can show if a food is allergic to you just by clicking its picture. It can likewise demonstrate it's health benefits, ingredients and recipes. ## Inspiration We are a group of students from India. The food provided here are completely new to us and we don't know the ingredients. One ...
partial
## Problem In these times of isolation, many of us developers are stuck inside which makes it hard for us to work with our fellow peers. We also miss the times when we could just sit with our friends and collaborate to learn new programming concepts. But finding the motivation to do the same alone can be difficult. #...
## Inspiration We saw that lots of people were looking for a team to work with for this hackathon, so we wanted to find a solution ## What it does I helps developers find projects to work, and helps project leaders find group members. By using the data from Github commits, it can determine what kind of projects a pe...
# So Many Languages Web application to help convert one programming language's code to another within seconds while also enabling the user to generate code using just logic. ## Inspiration Our team consists of 3 developers and all of us realised that we face the same problem- it's very hard to memorise all syntaxes ...
winning
## Inspiration Our journey with PathSense began with a deeply personal connection. Several of us have visually impaired family members, and we've witnessed firsthand the challenges they face navigating indoor spaces. We realized that while outdoor navigation has seen remarkable advancements, indoor environments remain...
## 🌟**Inspiration** There are over **7.2 million** people in the U.S. who are legally blind, many of whom rely on others to help them navigate and understand their environment. While technology holds the promise of increased independence, current solutions for the visually impaired often fall short—either lacking acc...
## Inspiration A study recently done in the UK learned that 69% of people above the age of 65 lack the IT skills needed to use the internet. Our world's largest resource for information, communication, and so much more is shut off to such a large population. We realized that we can leverage artificial intelligence to ...
winning
## Inspiration Philadelphia, like many urban cities, is grappling with rising temperatures due to climate change, industrialization, and the urban heat island effect. We noticed that extreme heat is making it unsafe for many communities, especially during summer months. Chilladelphia was inspired by the need to provid...
As a response to the ongoing wildfires devastating vast areas of Australia, our team developed a web tool which provides wildfire data visualization, prediction, and logistics handling. We had two target audiences in mind: the general public and firefighters. The homepage of Phoenix is publicly accessible and anyone ca...
## Inspiration Because of covid-19 and the holiday season, we are getting increasingly guilty over the carbon footprint caused by our online shopping. This is not a coincidence, Amazon along contributed over 55.17 million tonnes of CO2 in 2019 alone, the equivalent of 13 coal power plants. We have seen many carbon fo...
winning
## Inspiration Over the past 30 years, the percentage American adults who read literature has dropped about 14%. We found our inspiration. The issue we discovered is that due to the rise of modern technologies, movies and other films are more captivating than reading a boring book. We wanted to change that. ## What i...
## Inspiration We set out to create a tool that unleashes dancers' creativity by syncing their moves with AI-generated music that matches perfectly. Inspired by the vibrant dance scenes on TikTok and Instagram, where beats and moves are inseparable, we wanted to take it to the next level. Imagine dancing to music made...
## Inspiration *It's lunchtime. You quickly grab a bite to eat and sit by yourself while you munch it down alone. While food clearly has the power to bring people together, the pandemic has separated us from friends and family with whom we love to eat together with* Muk means Eat in in Korean 🍽️ Eating is such an es...
partial
## Inspiration I woke up on Saturday morning (10/23/2021). It was 9 am. My mom had just gotten back from the grocery store. She complained to me that the groceries were too expensive and her salary wasn't keeping up. "Damn," I thought, "sounds like a problem for deFi smart-contracts to solve!" ## What it does These ...
## Inspiration We live in a world where kiosks and card machines break down, and where owners of your favorite local restaurant only take in cash, in the advent of cashless, contactless transaction society. We want to make this transition a positive experience by offering the next generation alternative that incentiv...
## Inspiration After observing the news about the use of police force for so long, we considered to ourselves how to solve that. We realized that in some ways, the problem was made worse by a lack of trust in law enforcement. We then realized that we could use blockchain to create a better system for accountability in...
partial
# talko Hello! talko is a project for nwHacks 2022. Interviews can be scary, but they don't have to be! We believe that practice and experience is what gives you the confidence you need to show interviewers what you're made of. talko is made for students and new graduates who want to learn to fully express their skil...
## Inspiration Partially inspired by the Smart Cities track, we wanted our app to have the direct utility of ordering food, while still being fun to interact with. We aimed to combine convenience with entertainment, making the experience more enjoyable than your typical drive-through order. ## What it does You inter...
## Inspiration From our experience renting properties from private landlords, we think the rental experience is broken. Payments and communication are fragmented for both landlords and tenants. As tenants, we have to pay landlords through various payment channels, and that process is even more frustrating if you have ...
winning
## Inspiration Ever since we started using Discord voice channels to chill, play games, and listen to music, we always thought of various features that the "ideal" music bot would have. Because popular bots such as Groovy and Rythm have been recently discontinued, we thought it would be the perfect time to make this "...
Check out our slides here: shorturl.at/fCLR4 ## Inspiration In a digital age increasingly dictated by streaming services’ editorial teams and algorithms, we want to bring the emotion back to the music discovery experience. Your playlists have become an echo chamber of your own past preferences and the short, chorus-l...
# About Us Discord Team Channel: #Team-25 secretage001#6705, Null#8324, BluCloos#8986 <https://friendzr.tech/> ## Inspiration Over the last year the world has been faced with an ever-growing pandemic. As a result, students have faced increased difficulty in finding new friends and networking for potential job offe...
losing
## Inspiration The project is an **educational learning app** designed to teach English through a **structured roadmap**, particularly targeting **youth and students with *learning disabilities*.** It breaks down English learning into multiple levels, starting from the basics like alphabets and progressing to reading ...
## Inspiration From fashion shows to strutting down downtown Waterloo, you **are** the main character… Unless… your walk is less of a confident strut but more a hobble . I’ve always wanted to know if my walking/running form is bad, and *Runway Ready* is here to tell me just that. ## What it does Your phone *is* the...
# Doctors Within Borders ### A crowdsourcing app that improves first response time to emergencies by connecting city 911 dispatchers with certified civilians ## 1. The Challenge In Toronto, ambulances get to the patient in 9 minutes 90% of the time. We all know that the first few minutes after an emergency occurs ar...
losing
![Blik Logo](https://i.dhr.wtf/r/Small_stuff_(1).png) ## Inspiration Over the last five years, we've seen the rise and the slow decline of the crypto market. It has made some people richer, and many have suffered because of it. We realized that this problem can be solved with data and machine learning - What if we ca...
## Inspiration **With the world producing more waste then ever recorded, sustainability has become a very important topic of discussion.** Whether that be social, environmental, or economic, sustainability has become a key factor in how we design products and how we plan for the future. Especially during the pandemic,...
## Inspiration My father put me in charge of his finances and in contact with his advisor, a young, enterprising financial consultant eager to make large returns. That might sound pretty good, but to someone financially conservative like my father doesn't really want that kind of risk in this stage of his life. The op...
partial
## Inspiration One of our team members has firsthand experience working in retail, where shoplifting was always a looming threat. We wanted to help small business owners take back control of their stores and feel more secure. TheftWatch aims to reduce the anxiety and losses that come from theft by providing better ins...
## Inspiration As the world grapples with challenges like climate change, resource depletion, and social inequality, it has become imperative for organizations to not only understand their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impacts but also to benchmark and improve upon them. However, one of the most signific...
# Inspiration and Product There's a certain feeling we all have when we're lost. It's a combination of apprehension and curiosity – and it usually drives us to explore and learn more about what we see. It happens to be the case that there's a [huge disconnect](http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/vaccine/assets/pdfs/pu...
partial
## Inspiration Herpes Simplex Virus-2 (HSV-2) is the cause of Genital Herpes, a lifelong and contagious disease characterized by recurring painful and fluid-filled sores. Transmission occurs through contact with fluids from the sores of the infected person during oral, anal, and vaginal sex; transmission can occur in ...
## Problem Statement As the number of the elderly population is constantly growing, there is an increasing demand for home care. In fact, the market for safety and security solutions in the healthcare sector is estimated to reach $40.1 billion by 2025. The elderly, disabled, and vulnerable people face a constant risk ...
## Inspiration Due to the shortages of doctors and clinics in rural areas, early diagnosis of skin diseases that may seem harmless on the outside but can become life-threatening is a real problem. MediDerma uses Computer Vision to predict skin diseases and provide the underlying symptoms associated which are prominent...
winning
## Inspiration Last year we had to go through the hassle of retrieving a physical key from a locked box in a hidden location in order to enter our AirBnB. After seeing the August locks, we thought there must be a more convenient alternative. We thought of other situations where you would want to grant access to your ...
## Inspiration Recently, security has come to the forefront of media with the events surrounding Equifax. We took that fear and distrust and decided to make something to secure and protect data such that only those who should have access to it actually do. ## What it does Our product encrypts QR codes such that, if ...
## Inspiration We were inspired by the need for better accessibility tools for students with special needs. Observing the struggle of these students in accessing reading materials, and the lack of adaptive technologies in schools to support their unique learning requirements, motivated us to develop a solution. Our fr...
partial
# SpeakEasy ## Overview SpeakEasy: AI Language Companion Visiting another country but don't want to sound like a robot? Want to learn a new language but can't get your intonation to sound like other people's? SpeakEasy can make you sound like, well, you! ## Features SpeakEasy is an AI language companion which cent...
## Inspiration In today's world, Public Speaking is one of the greatest skills any individual can have. From pitching at a hackathon to simply conversing with friends, being able to speak clearly, be passionate and modulate your voice are key features of any great speech. To tackle this problem of becoming a better pu...
## Inspiration Knowtworthy is a startup that all three of us founded together, with the mission to make meetings awesome. We have spent this past summer at the University of Toronto’s Entrepreneurship Hatchery’s incubator executing on our vision. We’ve built a sweet platform that solves many of the issues surrounding ...
partial
# Stegano ## End-to-end steganalysis and steganography tool #### Demo at <https://stanleyzheng.tech> Please see the video before reading documentation, as the video is more brief: <https://youtu.be/47eLlklIG-Q> A technicality, GitHub user RonanAlmeida ghosted our group after committing react template code, which ha...
## See our live demo! **On Rinkeby testnet blockchain (recommended):** <https://rinkeby.kelas.dev> **On xDAI blockchain (Warning: uses real money):** <https://xdai.kelas.dev> ## Check out our narrative StoryMaps here! **Greenery in your Community:** <https://arcg.is/1vu448> **Culture & Diversity in choosing your H...
## Inspiration The advancement of image classification, notably in facial recognition, has some very interesting applications. [Microsoft](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/services/cognitive-services/face/) and Amazon currently provide facial recognition services to parties ranging from corporations checking on their...
winning
![](https://img.shields.io/github/license/MoroccanGemsbok/ReviewRecap) ![](https://img.shields.io/github/contributors/MoroccanGemsbok/ReviewRecap) ![](https://img.shields.io/github/last-commit/MoroccanGemsbok/ReviewRecap) ## Inspiration Any seasoned online shopper knows that one of the best ways to get information ab...
## Inspiration Despite the advent of the information age, misinformation remains a big issue in today's day and age. Yet, mass media accessibility for newer language speakers, such as younger children or recent immigrants, remains lacking. We want these people to be able to do their own research on various news topics...
## Inspiration Extreme potential for foundation models to accelerate high-quality biological and scientific illustrations for common individuals without special effects or animating abilities ## What it does Uses GPT API to create high-quality biological illustrations of various macromolecules given prompts with var...
partial
## Inspiration 2020 has definitely been the year of chess. Between 2020 locking everyone indoors, and Netflix's Queen Gambit raking in 62 million viewers, everyone is either talking about chess, or watching others play chess. ## What it does **Have you ever wanted to see chess through the eyes of chess prodigy Beth ...
## Inspiration The inspiration for the project was our desire to make studying and learning more efficient and accessible for students and educators. Utilizing advancements in technology, like the increased availability and lower cost of text embeddings, to make the process of finding answers within educational materi...
## Chess Bird Chess Bird is a web app designed to let you play a game of chess while broadcasting your game on Twitter!
partial
## Inspiration Motion controls for the Wii remote, smartphones, etc... ## What it does Uses acceleration data from an accelerometer module to control a tilting maze within a Unity 3D application. ## How we built it An Arduino Nano board was used to interface with the MPU6050 accelerometer / gyroscope using I2C. Th...
## Inspiration **Machine learning** is a powerful tool for automating tasks that are not scalable at the human level. However, when deciding on things that can critically affect people's lives, it is important that our models do not learn biases. [Check out this article about Amazon's automated recruiting tool which l...
I've never made a project with Unity before, so I decided to give it a shot with a maze-based running game. The goal of this project is to support a VR headset and use the gyroscope to make the maze an immersive experience, but in its current stage it is controlled with left and right keyboard input.
winning
## Coinbase Analytics **Sign in with your Coinbase account, and get helpful analytics specific to your investment.** See in depth returns, and a simple profit and cost analysis for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. Hoping to help everyone that uses and will use Coinbase to purchase cryptocurrency.
## Inspiration The cryptocurrency market is an industry which is expanding at an exponential rate. Everyday, thousands new investors of all kinds are getting into this volatile market. With more than 1,500 coins to choose from, it is extremely difficult to choose the wisest investment for those new investors. Our goal...
## Inspiration: Our whole group had a strong interest in Natural Language Processing, and there has been a lot of excitement about cryptocurrencies recently. We are also very aware of the impact social media can have, and we wanted to show that there is a relationship between tweets about cryptocurrencies and the cryp...
partial
## Inspiration While we were doing preliminary research, we had found overwhelming amounts of evidence of mental health deterioration as a consequence of life-altering lockdown restrictions. Academic research has shown that adolescents depend on friendship to maintain a sense of self-worth and to manage anxiety and de...
## Inspiration For this hackathon, we wanted to build something that could have a positive impact on its users. We've all been to university ourselves, and we understood the toll, stress took on our minds. Demand for mental health services among youth across universities has increased dramatically in recent years. A R...
## Inspiration In this time of the pandemic, most of us are just in our own homes. Not all people can cope with this "new normal" state and can't go much outside. We have realized that the emotional factor in life is essential. In the Philippines, mental health issues are not taken seriously. In this project, we creat...
winning
## Inspiration There were two primary sources of inspiration. The first one was a paper published by University of Oxford researchers, who proposed a state of the art deep learning pipeline to extract spoken language from video. The paper can be found [here](http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/%7Evgg/publications/2018/Afouras1...
## Inspiration Inspired by a team member's desire to study through his courses by listening to his textbook readings recited by his favorite anime characters, functionality that does not exist on any app on the market, we realized that there was an opportunity to build a similar app that would bring about even deeper ...
## Inspiration There are thousands of people worldwide who suffer from conditions that make it difficult for them to both understand speech and also speak for themselves. According to the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, the loss of a personal form of expression (through speech) has the capability to impact...
winning
## Inspiration "My Little Web Dev" was inspired by the simplicity and beginner-friendly nature of Scratch. We wanted to make a product that had the same approachability, but tackled a more complex topic like web development. Furthermore, we wanted to build a project that allows children in marginalized groups to shrin...
# BlockOJ > > Boundless creativity. > > > ## What is BlockOJ? BlockOJ is an online judge built around Google's Blockly library that teaches children how to code. The library allows us to implement a code editor which lets the user program with various blocks (function blocks, variable blocks, etc.). ![Figure 1. Ima...
## Inspiration We were inspired by dog lovers like us - curious and fascinated whenever we see a cool dog, but also eternally perplexed by the sheer number of dog breeds that exist. ## What it does What's that Doggo enables anyone to upload a picture of a dog, and then identifies exactly what breed the dog is! ## H...
partial
## Inspiration Helping people who are visually and/or hearing impaired to have better and safer interactions. ## What it does The sensor beeps when the user comes too close to an object or too close to a hot beverage/food. The sign language recognition system translates sign language from a hearing impaired individu...
## Inspiration We realized how visually-impaired people find it difficult to perceive the objects coming near to them, or when they are either out on road, or when they are inside a building. They encounter potholes and stairs and things get really hard for them. We decided to tackle the issue of accessibility to supp...
## Inspiration I've played the game ricochet robots before and thought it would be a cool project to try to replicate-- but with a twist! ## What it does Given a pre-designed game board layout (in the form of a txt file), a player can choose a player character (a dot for example!) They can then choose a starting pos...
winning
## Inspiration Our spark to tackle this project was ignited by a teammate's immersive internship at a prestigious cardiovascular research society, where they served as a dedicated data engineer. Their firsthand encounters with the intricacies of healthcare data management and the pressing need for innovative solutions...
## Inspiration When we joined the hackathon, we began brainstorming about problems in our lives. After discussing some constant struggles in their lives with many friends and family, one response was ultimately shared: health. Interestingly, one of the biggest health concerns that impacts everyone in their lives comes...
## Inspiration This project came to us when one of our teammates mentioned his grandma struggling to keep track of her cholesterol and the medications she was taking to lower it. We realized that to help alleviate this, we would need to approach the problem from both sides. High blood cholesterol causes **4.4 million...
winning
## Inspiration As we began to look at the TreeHacks 10 tracks, all team members were immediately drawn to the sustainability track. In a world with increasing temperatures, excessive greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, and pollution, among numerous other ecological challenges, we know we all have an individua...
## Inspiration With the Berkeley enrollment time just around the corner, everyone is stressed about what classes to take. Recently, we had a conversation with one of our friends who was especially stressed about taking CS 162 next semester, with her main concern being that the course has so much content and it will be...
## Inspiration 🌱 Climate change is affecting every region on earth. The changes are widespread, rapid, and intensifying. The UN states that we are at a pivotal moment and the urgency to protect our Earth is at an all-time high. We wanted to harness the power of social media for a greater purpose: promoting sustainabi...
partial
# Inspiration and Product There's a certain feeling we all have when we're lost. It's a combination of apprehension and curiosity – and it usually drives us to explore and learn more about what we see. It happens to be the case that there's a [huge disconnect](http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/vaccine/assets/pdfs/pu...
## Inspiration Want to take advantage of the AR and object detection technologies to help people to gain safer walking experiences and communicate distance information to help people with visual loss navigate. ## What it does Augment the world with the beeping sounds that change depending on your proximity towards o...
### Inspiration Have you ever found yourself wandering in a foreign land, eyes wide with wonder, yet feeling that pang of curiosity about the stories behind the unfamiliar sights and sounds? That's exactly where we found ourselves. All four of us share a deep love for travel and an insatiable curiosity about the diver...
winning
## Inspiration Building and maintaining software is complex, time-consuming, and can quickly become expensive, especially as your application scales. Developers, particularly those in startups, often overspend on tools, cloud services, and server infrastructure without realizing it. In fact, nearly 40% of server costs...
## Inspiration: Millions of active software developers use GitHub for managing their software development, however, our team believes that there is a lack of incentive and engagement factor within the platform. As users on GitHub, we are aware of this problem and want to apply a twist that can open doors to a new inno...
## FLEX [Freelancing Linking Expertise Xchange] ## Inspiration Freelancers deserve a platform where they can fully showcase their skills, without worrying about high fees or delayed payments. Companies need fast, reliable access to talent with specific expertise to complete jobs efficiently. "FLEX" bridges the gap, e...
partial
## Inspiration All 3 of us are University of Waterloo students and have experienced many scary geese in our days here. So we wanted to create a visual representation of the way the Waterloo geese act while learning new skills. Specifically how certain aggressive geese decide to follow you as you are walking to class. ...
## Inspiration As coders, we often don’t have the time (or the will) to cook, which leads to one inevitable outcome—fast food, and not always the healthiest choices! We wanted to help fellow coders in workspaces and universities make better eating decisions. That’s where Goose the Duck comes in, our solution to encour...
## Inspiration Amid the fast-paced rhythm of university life at Waterloo, one universal experience ties us all together: the geese. Whether you've encountered them on your way to class, been woken up by honking at 7 am, or spent your days trying to bypass flocks of geese during nesting season, the geese have establish...
losing
## Inspiration Being frequent visitors of the UTM Esports Club, there are a lot of things which we would like to make more convenient for us. Things like looking up certain information about characters in the games we play, organizing tournaments with large amounts of people, and making lobbies for people to play in. ...
## Inspiration The inspiration that we drew when creating this discord bot was to personalize a bot that could do a plethora of different things. We wanted the main purpose of our bot to be entertainment sort of like an Airplane screen. To navigate PikaBot, only a single person is needed. ## What it does When using ...
## Inspiration GeoGuesser is a fun game which went viral in the middle of the pandemic, but after having played for a long time, it started feeling tedious and boring. Our Discord bot tries to freshen up the stale air by providing a playlist of iconic locations in addendum to exciting trivia like movies and monuments ...
losing
# Inspiration Traditional startup fundraising is often restricted by stringent regulations, which make it difficult for small investors and emerging founders to participate. These barriers favor established VC firms and high-networth individuals, limiting innovation and excluding a broad range of potential investors. ...
## Inspiration As a startup founder, it is often difficult to raise money, but the amount of equity that is given up can be alarming for people who are unsure if they want the gasoline of traditional venture capital. With VentureBits, startup founders take a royalty deal and dictate exactly the amount of money they ar...
## Inspiration Finding interesting and genuinely educational content on Youtube has become increasingly difficult in recent years. While Youtube has ample content targeted towards learning and skill acquisition, its algorithm steers users away from intellectual long-form content because short-form content increases us...
winning
## Inspiration For physical therapy patients, doing your home exercise program is a crucial part of therapy and recovery. These exercises improve the body and allow patients to remain pain-free without having to pay for costly repeat visits. However, doing these exercises incorrectly can hinder progress and put you ba...
## Inspiration r.unear.me helps you get exactly where your friends are. In cases when you are supposed to meet them but can't exactly find them, unear.me helps you get to them. r.unear.me is a webapp that that enables you and your friend to share each other's location on the same page, and the location updates contin...
## Inspiration The pandemic has affected the health of billions worldwide, and not just through COVID-19. Studies have shown a worrying decrease in physical activity due to quarantining and the closure of clubs, sports, and gyms. Not only does this discourage an active lifestyle, but it can also lead to serious injuri...
winning
## Inspiration We believe technology should connect people together, and allow us to get out of our comfort zone. So we came up with random ideas that focused on the premise of socially connecting strangers together. Then it hit us! An app that connects users based off of personality traits and similar interested even...
## Inspiration It sometimes feels so innate to find inspiration from everyday routine. One such case is when my teammates and I were on a group call when we discussed about how we got **calls from spammers \*\*almost every day and how convincing it seemed to everyone who talked to them for a while. As we discussed fur...
## Inspiration 📍 In an era where digital platforms are omnipresent, the challenge of fostering genuine connections while promoting ethical technology use has never been more pressing. The inspiration for "Beacons" came from our own experiences of struggling to coordinate plans and communicate effectively with groups....
losing
## Inspiration Jorge's sister asked a question that he didn't want to answer because it was too much work. That's where ReplAI comes in. ## What it does ReplAI, your own generative-AI power Discord representative that learns your speech patterns and diction. Whether you're too busy or tired of reading messages, have...
## Inspiration Hearing a Huawei representative discuss the issues of mental health resonated strongly with our group. Younger generations are increasingly affected by mental health issues, especially as many of us experience the impacts of isolation and loneliness due to COVID-19. We were also inspired by the challeng...
## Inspiration As someone who has always wanted to speak in ASL (American Sign Language), I have always struggled with practicing my gestures, as I, unfortunately, don't know any ASL speakers to try and have a conversation with. Learning ASL is an amazing way to foster an inclusive community, for those who are hearing...
losing
## Inspiration While a member of my team was conducting research at UCSF, he noticed a family partaking in a beautiful, albeit archaic, practice. They gave their grandfather access to a google doc, where each family member would write down the memories that they have with him. Nearly every day, the grandfather would s...
## Inspiration We started this project because we observed the emotional toll loneliness, grief, and dementia challenges can take on individuals and their caregivers, and we wanted to create a solution that could make a meaningful difference in their lives. Loneliness is especially tough on them, affecting both their ...
## Inspiration We wanted to tackle a problem that impacts a large demographic of people. After research, we learned that 1 in 10 people suffer from dyslexia and 5-20% of people suffer from dysgraphia. These neurological disorders go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed often leading to these individuals constantly struggling t...
partial
## 💡 Inspiration Generation Z is all about renting - buying land is simply out of our budgets. But the tides are changing: with Pocket Plots, an entirely new generation can unlock the power of land ownership without a budget. Traditional land ownership goes like this: you find a property, spend weeks negotiating a p...
## Inspiration Our inspiration was to provide a robust and user-friendly financial platform. After hours of brainstorming, we decided to create a decentralized mutual fund on mobile devices. We also wanted to explore new technologies whilst creating a product that has several use cases of social impact. Our team used ...
## Inspiration As new adults and near-graduates entering a challenging job market, we've faced the uncertainty of housing affordability and real estate decisions firsthand. The complexity of fluctuating markets—driven by location, economics, and global events—can make homeownership and investment feel out of reach. We...
winning
## Inspiration Our inspiration for this project was the theme restoration. With recent circumstances of Covid-19, small businesses have suffered tremendously. In aims to restore families and economies back to normal, we created a web application in which small businesses can create postings for projects or tasks they ...
## Inspiration Memes are becoming increasingly popular among teenagers and young adults, providing a critical source of sentiment information the age groups that are otherwise less expressive of their thoughts. We seek to analyse and provide useful business insights from popular memes that reach thousands of people. ...
## Inspiration Fannie Mae, the largest provider of financing for mortgage lenders, faces a daunting task of micromanaging nearly every house in the country. One problem they have is the need to maintain a house property to certain standards when it is foreclosed so that its value does not depreciate significantly; a h...
losing
## Inspiration We are inspired by... ## What it does Doc Assist is a physician tool used to help automate and help expedite the patient diagnosis process. The Doc Assist MVP specifically will take information about a users symptoms and imaging records such as chest Xray images to predict the chance of pneumonia. ##...
## Inspiration In this modern technological age, so many things are created with the sole purpose of monetization. Ads are plastered everywhere, truths may be altered, and privacy may be breached by companies in an attempt to make an extra buck. We hoped to create something that would keep at least the most important ...
## Inspiration In 2012 in the U.S infants and newborns made up 73% of hospitals stays and 57.9% of hospital costs. This adds up to $21,654.6 million dollars. As a group of students eager to make a change in the healthcare industry utilizing machine learning software, we thought this was the perfect project for us. Sta...
losing
## What it does KokoRawr at its core is a Slack App that facilitates new types of interactions via chaotic cooperative gaming through text. Every user is placed on a team based on their Slack username and tries to increase their team's score by playing games such as Tic Tac Toe, Connect 4, Battleship, and Rock Paper S...
## Inspiration The inspiration for our project came from three of our members being involved with Smash in their community. From one of us being an avid competitor, one being an avid watcher and one of us who works in an office where Smash is played quite frequently, we agreed that the way Smash Bro games were matched...
[Check out the GitHub repo.](https://github.com/victorzshi/better) ## Inspiration In our friend group, we often like to bet against each other on goals for motivation and fun. We realized that in many situations, exposing personal milestones to a group of friends can provide great social encouragement and strengthen ...
winning
## Inspiration 💡 *An address is a person's identity.* In California, there are over 1.2 million vacant homes, yet more than 150,000 people (homeless population in California, 2019) don't have access to a stable address. Without an address, people lose access to government benefits (welfare, food stamps), healthcare,...
## Inspiration There are 1.1 billion people without Official Identity (ID). Without this proof of identity, they can't get access to basic financial and medical services, and often face many human rights offences, due the lack of accountability. The concept of a Digital Identity is extremely powerful. In Estonia, for...
# Inspiration I recently got attached to Beat Saber so I thought I'd be fun to build something similar to it. # Objective The objective of the game is to score higher than your opponent. Points are scored if a player triggers a hitbox when a note is in contact with it. **Points Chart:** **Green:** Perfect hit! The...
winning
## Inspiration Firstly as a team, we were inspired to spend this weekend on making something for the betterment of society, each one of the team members feels tech can do a lot more in helping people solve problems at scale and impacting a large number of people. Climate Change is one such problem and we are inspired ...
## Inspiration Fannie Mae, the largest provider of financing for mortgage lenders, faces a daunting task of micromanaging nearly every house in the country. One problem they have is the need to maintain a house property to certain standards when it is foreclosed so that its value does not depreciate significantly; a h...
# butternut ## `buh·tr·nuht` -- `bot or not?` Is what you're reading online written by a human, or AI? Do the facts hold up? `butternut`is a chrome extension that leverages state-of-the-art text generation models *to combat* state-of-the-art text generation. ## Inspiration Misinformation spreads like wildfire in th...
partial
## Inspiration - Did you know that Pandas were once carnivores, then became vegetarian, then vegan? According to Google, Vegan trend has quadrupled between 2012 and 2017. Today, at least one in three Americans have stopped or reduced their meat consumption. However, almost 90% of the Impossible Burgers sold at the fas...
## Inspiration We were inspired by Plaid's challenge to "help people make more sense of their financial lives." We wanted to create a way for people to easily view where they are spending their money so that they can better understand how to conserve it. Plaid's API allows us to see financial transactions, and Google ...
## Inspiration: We thought about how we can provide an easy educational tool that would help people who were trying to eat more sustainable. ## What it does: We take an online recipe and give it a sustainability score based on the ingredients in the recipe. We also give suggestions on how to eat more sustainably. ## ...
partial
## What it does This app uses a user's location to determine whether or not they are in the proximity of a disaster, and if they are, will passively push their location to a database where first responders (who run admin accounts) can access and map out their locations. Thus, if people are stuck in a fire, flood, eart...
## Inspiration As students with family in West Africa, we’ve been close to personal situations in which the difference between life and death was quick access to medical aid. One call, quicker service or a nearby expert or volunteer could’ve made a big difference, preventing a life from being lost. We were inspired by...
## Inspiration In light of the ongoing global conflict between war-torn countries, many civilians face hardships. Recognizing these challenges, LifeLine Aid was inspired to direct vulnerable groups to essential medical care, health services, shelter, food and water assistance, and other deprivation relief. ## What it...
losing
## Inspiration Pivoted to a completely new project to allow users to access trading analysis tools normally not available to a everyday or beginner trader. ## What it does ## How we built it ## Challenges we ran into ## Accomplishments that we're proud of ## What we learned ## What's next for OpenAccessToQuantTo...
## Inspiration The inspiration came from lectures on several of the innovations recently created by fintech and proprietary trading companies in the domain of algorithmic/ high frequency/ learning-based trading strategies, and my desire to open these technologies up to everyone else, especially those with insufficient...
## Inspiration After being overwhelmed by the volume of financial educational tools available, we discovered how the majority of products are focused for institutions or expensive. We decided there needs to be an easy approach to learning about stocks in a more casual environment. Interested in the simplicity of Tinde...
losing
## Problem Statement As the number of the elderly population is constantly growing, there is an increasing demand for home care. In fact, the market for safety and security solutions in the healthcare sector is estimated to reach $40.1 billion by 2025. The elderly, disabled, and vulnerable people face a constant risk ...
[Play The Game](https://gotm.io/askstudio/pandemic-hero) ## Inspiration Our inspiration comes from the concern of **misinformation** surrounding **COVID-19 Vaccines** in these challenging times. As students, not only do we love to learn, but we also yearn to share the gifts of our knowledge and creativity with the wo...
## FallCall FallCall: Passive Reactive Safety Notifier ## Inspiration: One of our teammate's grandfathers in Japan has an increased susceptibility of falling down as a result of getting older. Even though there are times when people are around to help, we cannot account for all the potential situations when he may f...
winning
## Inspiration This project was inspired by one of our group members. As they do not have Discord nitro nor any other convenient means of sending large files to their friends, we have decided to solve this ourselves ## What it does FilePortal basically creates a temporary session between two people and allows them t...
## Inspiration This project was inspired by Leon's father's first-hand experience with a lack of electronic medical records and realizing the need for more accessible patient experience. ## What it does The system stores patients' medical records. it also allows patients to fill out medical forms using their voice, ...
## Inspiration Electra was inspired by the complexity of modern elections. Traditional polls and static models often fail to capture dynamic voter behavior, especially in battleground states where every news cycle can shift the race. By leveraging LLM agents and a custom framework, Electra brings a cutting-edge soluti...
losing
## Inspiration One of the greatest challenges facing our society today is food waste. From an environmental perspective, Canadians waste about *183 kilograms of solid food* per person, per year. This amounts to more than six million tonnes of food a year, wasted. From an economic perspective, this amounts to *31 billi...
## Inspiration Despite being a global priority in the eyes of the United Nations, food insecurity still affects hundreds of millions of people. Even in the developed country of Canada, over 5.8 million individuals (>14% of the national population) are living in food-insecure households. These individuals are unable to...
# Omakase *"I'll leave it up to you"* ## Inspiration On numerous occasions, we have each found ourselves staring blankly into the fridge with no idea of what to make. Given some combination of ingredients, what type of good food can I make, and how? ## What It Does We have built an app that recommends recipes base...
winning
As an avid fitness geek, I was always on the lookout for fast and easy ways to monitor my nutrition By taking a picture of your meal and texting it to us through Twilio, we can determine what you are having using CloudVision and then calculate nutrition using the NutritionIX database. It was hard to integrate the dif...
## Inspiration One of our teammates works part time in Cineplex and at the end of the day, he told us that all their extra food was just throw out.This got us thinking, why throw the food out when you can you earn revenue and some end of the day sales for people in the local proxmity that are looking for something to ...
## Inspiration Unhealthy diet is the leading cause of death in the U.S., contributing to approximately 678,000 deaths each year, due to nutrition and obesity-related diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. Let that sink in; the leading cause of death in the U.S. could be completely nullified if o...
partial
## Inspiration The idea for Green Eats started after we recognized the growing crisis regarding greenhouse gas emissions globally, and through some quick research discovered that food production alone (including farming, transportation, packaging, etc.) was responsible for over **one quarter** of these emissions. Arme...
## Inspiration We as developers mostly waste a lot of time and energy on repetitive compilations and testing of web and C technologies. The lose their flow, creativity with those monotonous and recurring steps, which actually reflects in the final web or low language production. We wanted to solve that by empowering d...
## 🌱 Inspiration With the ongoing climate crisis, we recognized a major gap in the incentives for individuals to make greener choices in their day-to-day lives. People want to contribute to the solution, but without tangible rewards, it can be hard to motivate long-term change. That's where we come in! We wanted to c...
losing
## Inspiration We got the idea when we ask ourselves the question: how can we better make use of the large amounts of data in the world to meet people's privacy and healthcare needs? We all recall being at the doctor's office and seeing the doctor write long written notes. We then came up with a potentially impactful ...
* [Deployment link](https://unifymd.vercel.app/) * [Pitch deck link](https://www.figma.com/deck/qvwPyUShfJbTfeoPSjVIGX/UnifyMD-Pitch-Deck?node-id=4-71) ## 🌟 Inspiration Long lists of patient records make it challenging to locate **relevant health data**. This can lead to doctors providing **inaccurate diagnoses** du...
## Inspiration An estimated 33 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) are lost each year due to medical errors, making bad health care as grave a public health threat as malaria or tuberculosis. At least 2/3 of medical errors occur in the global south. In the US, we know that an iterative, data-driven approach...
partial
## Inspiration We hate making resumes and customizing them for each employeer so we created a tool to speed that up. ## What it does A user creates "blocks" which are saved. Then they can pick and choose which ones they want to use. ## How we built it [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/) [Express](https://expressjs.c...
## Inspiration Algorithm interviews... suck. They're more a test of sanity (and your willingness to "grind") than a true performance indicator. That being said, large language models (LLMs) like Cohere and ChatGPT are rather *good* at doing LeetCode, so why not make them do the hard work...? Introduce: CheetCode. Our...
## Inspiration When you travelled, have you ever been curious about other tourists' experiences? Or you're eager to share your own experience with someone? Especially since tourist attractions welcome travellers from all over the world, this is a unique opportunity to see the world from another person's perspective. ...
winning
## Inspiration The inspiration behind this page, is truly driven by 'Onefan' itself which has been a true labour of love and devotion for about 10 months and basically 'Onefan' is a site that aims to give people amazing conversations with a unique chat UI by using an algorithm to match you to someone that has the same...
## Inspiration Making things efficient was our main inspiration for this project. ## What it does Uses an algorithm that determines the best route for postal trucks to deliver parcels. ## How we built it While the back-end was entirely made in Java, our front-end was constructed with Html, CSS, JavaScript and pyth...
Hello and thank you for judging my project. I am listing below two different links and an explanation of what the two different videos are. Due to the time constraints of some hackathons, I have a shorter video for those who require a lower time. As default I will be placing the lower time video up above, but if you ha...
losing
## Inspiration I wanted to find the next big thing like Bitcoin. I saw it once happen with Binance on the Cryptocurrency Exchange market via a Python Package Repo. Is there a way to systematically discover the next big thing? It boils down to getting access to asymmetric information. Asymmetric information is a relat...
## Inspiration A [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.09225.pdf) by Indian Institute of Technology researchers described that stock predictions using sentiment analysis had a higher accuracy rate than those analyzing previous trends. We decided to implement that idea and create a real-time, self-updating web-app that co...
## Inspiration Students often do not have a financial background and want to begin learning about finance, but the sheer amount of resources that exist online make it difficult to know which articles are good for people to read. Thus we thought the best way to tackle this problem was to use a machine learning techniqu...
losing
## Inspiration * Sky: Children of Light HackMIT Challenge ## What it does * This project aims to look at a dataset given by That Game Company and identify meaningful relationships within the game. From simple data analysis like finding which countries are more likely to buy items in sky shop to more complex ones lik...
## Inspiration We needed a system to operate our Hackspace utilities shop, where we sell materials, snacks, and even the use of some restricted equipment. It needed to be instantaneous, allow for a small amount of debt in case of emergency and work using our College ID cards to keep track of who is purchasing what. #...
## Inspiration Witnessing the atrocities(protests, vandalism, etc.) caused by the recent presidential election, we want to make the general public (especially for the minorities and the oppressed) be more safe. ## What it does It provides the users with live news update happening near them, alerts them if they trave...
losing
## Chess Bird Chess Bird is a web app designed to let you play a game of chess while broadcasting your game on Twitter!
Its a cool video game
## Inspiration This game was inspired by the classical game of connect four, in which one inserts disks into a vertical board to try to get four in a row. As big fans of the game, our team sought to improve it by adding new features. ## What it does The game is played like a regular game of connect four, except each...
losing
## Inspiration In 2018 there are apps to track almost everything. You can track your financial well being, food consumption or even how well you sleep. Mental health is a prominent topic in today's world that is constantly in the public eye. We were surprised to realise that there are no good solutions to track your ...
## Inspiration Medical device companies spend on average between $20-40K on FDA consulting services and around 9 months to complete just the 510k approval process which allows you to legally market your device. With the rise of software enabled devices (such as wearables etc), the development time for these devices ar...
## Inspiration What inspired us to build this application was spreading mental health awareness in relationship with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic around the world. While it is easy to brush off signs of fatigue and emotional stress as just "being tired", often times, there is a deeper problem at the root of it. We de...
losing